Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley DL FRSL FMedSci (born 7 February 1958), known commonly as Matt Ridley, is a British journalist who has written several popular science books. He is also a businessman and a Conservative member of the House of Lords.Ridley is best known for his writings on science, the environment, and economics. He has written several science books including The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (1994), Genome (1999), The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (2010) and The Evolution of Everything: How Ideas Emerge (2015). In 2011, he won the Hayek Prize, which \"honors the book published within the past two years that best reflects Hayek’s vision of economic and individual liberty.\" Ridley also gave the Angus Millar Lecture on \"scientific heresy\" at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in 2011. He was recently elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and won the Julian Simon award in March 2012. In 2014 he won the free enterprise award from the Institute of Economic Affairs.His popular TED conference talk, \"When Ideas Have Sex\", has over 2 million views. Ridley argues that exchange and specialisation are the features of human society that lead to the development of new ideas, and that human society is therefore a \"collective brain\".Ridley was chairman of the UK bank Northern Rock from 2004 to 2007, during which period Northern Rock experienced the first run on a British bank in 150 years. Ridley chose to resign, and the bank was bailed out by the UK government leading to the nationalisation of Northern Rock."@en }
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- Matt_Ridley abstract "Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley DL FRSL FMedSci (born 7 February 1958), known commonly as Matt Ridley, is a British journalist who has written several popular science books. He is also a businessman and a Conservative member of the House of Lords.Ridley is best known for his writings on science, the environment, and economics. He has written several science books including The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (1994), Genome (1999), The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (2010) and The Evolution of Everything: How Ideas Emerge (2015). In 2011, he won the Hayek Prize, which \"honors the book published within the past two years that best reflects Hayek’s vision of economic and individual liberty.\" Ridley also gave the Angus Millar Lecture on \"scientific heresy\" at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in 2011. He was recently elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and won the Julian Simon award in March 2012. In 2014 he won the free enterprise award from the Institute of Economic Affairs.His popular TED conference talk, \"When Ideas Have Sex\", has over 2 million views. Ridley argues that exchange and specialisation are the features of human society that lead to the development of new ideas, and that human society is therefore a \"collective brain\".Ridley was chairman of the UK bank Northern Rock from 2004 to 2007, during which period Northern Rock experienced the first run on a British bank in 150 years. Ridley chose to resign, and the bank was bailed out by the UK government leading to the nationalisation of Northern Rock.".