Tim Harford The next fifty things that made the modern economy

Engels | 344 pagina's | The Bridge Street Press, London | 2020

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Tim Harford 50 inventions that shaped the modern economy

The plow -- I: Winners and losers: The gramophone ; Barbed wire ; Seller feedback ; Google search ; Passports ; Robots ; The welfare state -- II: Reinventing how we live. Infant formula ; TV dinners ; The Pill ; Video games ; Market research ; Air-conditioning ; Department stores -- III: Inventing new systems. The dynamo ; The shipping container ; The bar code ; The cold chain ; Tradable debt and the tally stick ; The Billy bookcase ; The elevator -- IV: Ideas about ideas. Cuneiform ; Public-key...

Engels | 321 pagina's | Riverhead Books, New York | 2017

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