Matt Ridley

Author, Executive, Journalist

Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley, DL, FRSL, FMedSci, is a British science writer, journalist and businessman. He is best known for his writings on science, the environment, and economics.

Matt Ridley's 14 Book Recommendations

• Unravelling the Double Helix
• The Origin of Species
• The Vital Question
• The Martian
• My Family and Other Animals
• The Hockey Stick Illusion
• Rubicon
• Cuckoo
• The Ultimate Resource 2
• Into the Silence
• Whole Earth Discipline
• The Bottomless Well
• The Skeptical Environmentalist
• What Technology Wants

Books written by Matt Ridley

• The Origins of Virtue
• The Agile Gene
• Nature Via Nurture
• Genome
• The Evolution of Everything
• How Innovation Works
• The Rational Optimist
• The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
• Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19