Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy
$22.50
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
31 July 2018
Summary
Based on the series produced for the BBC World Service
Who thought up paper money? How did the contraceptive pill change the face of the legal profession? Why was the horse collar as important for human progress as the steam engine? How did the humble spreadsheet turn the world of finance upside-down?
The world economy defies comprehension. A continuously-changing system of immense complexity, it offers over ten billion distinct products and services, doubles in size every fif…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349142630 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0349142637 |
| Author: | Tim Harford |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 31 July 2018 |
| Weight: | 269g |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 197mm x 22mm |
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Short chapters are a delight in this frenetic age … Best of all, the book is constantly surprising. It brims with innovations I didn’t know about, as well as ones I thought I knew about but did not - The Times
About The Author
Tim Harford
Tim Harford is a senior columnist at the Financial Times, and his writing has appeared everywhere from Esquire and Wired to the Washington Post and the New York Times. His previous books include Adapt, The Logic of Life, the million-selling The Undercover Economist, Dear Undercover Economist and The Undercover Economist Strikes Back. Harford is a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, was named Economics Commentator of the Year in 2014 and won the Royal Statistical Society Journalistic Excellence Award 2015 and the Society of Business Economists Writing Prize 2014-15. On BBC Radio 4, Harford presents More or Less, which was commended by the Royal Statistical Society for excellence in journalism each year from 2010 to 2014. He has spoken about his ideas at TED and at the Sydney Opera House.
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