Fifty things that made the modern economy, Tim Harford

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Fifty things that made the modern economy, Tim Harford

Statement of responsibility

Tim Harford

Instantiates

• Fifty things that made the modern economy

Publication

• London, Little, Brown, 2017

Copyright

• ©2017

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

• still image
• text

Content type code

• sti
• txt

Content type MARC source

• rdacontent
• rdacontent

Contents

1.The Plough -- Introduction -- I.Winners and Losers -- 2.The Gramophone -- 3.Barbed Wire -- 4.Seller Feedback -- 5.Google Search -- 6.Passports -- 7.Robots -- 8.The Welfare State -- II.Reinventing How We Live -- 9.Infant Formula -- 10.TV Dinners -- 11.The Pill -- 12.Video Games -- 13.Market Research -- 14.Air Conditioning -- 15.Department Stores -- III.Inventing New Systems -- 16.The Dynamo -- 17.The Shipping Container -- 18.The Barcode -- 19.The Cold Chain -- 20.Tradable Debt and the Tally Stick -- 21.Billy Bookcase -- 22.The Elevator -- IV.Ideas About Ideas -- 23.Cuneiform -- 24.Public Key Cryptography -- 25.Double-Entry Bookkeeping -- 26.Limited Liability Companies -- 27.Management Consulting -- 28.Intellectual Property -- 29.The Compiler -- V.Where Do Inventions Come From? -- 30.The iPhone -- 31.Diesel Engines -- 32.Clocks -- 33.The Haber-Bosch Process -- 34.Radar -- 35.Batteries -- 36.Plastic -- VI.The Visible Hand -- 37.The Bank -- 38.Razors and Blades -- 39.Tax Havens -- 40.Leaded Petrol -- 41.Antibiotics in Farming -- 42.M-Pesa -- 43.Property Registers -- VII.Inventing the Wheel -- 44.Paper -- 45.Index Funds -- 46.The S-bend -- 47.Paper Money -- 48.Concrete -- 49.Insurance -- Conclusion: Looking forward -- 50.Epilogue: The Light Bulb

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000060537019

Dimensions

24 cm.

Extent

343 pages

Isbn

9781408709122

Isbn Type

(paperback)

Lccn

2017431432

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unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• n

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illustrations

Record ID

u201726

Specific material designation

regular print

System control number

(OCoLC)999383401