Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy
A Financial Times and Bloomberg Business Week Book of the Year'Constantly surprising. It brims with innovations I didn't know about, as well as ones I thought I knew about but did not' The TimesFrom the tally-stick to Bitcoin, the canal lock to the jumbo jet, each invention in Tim Harford's fascinating new book has its own curious, surprising and memorable story, a vignette against a grand backdrop. Step by step, readers will start to understand where we are, how we got here, and where we might be going next.'Packed with fascinating detail . . . Harford has an engagingly wry style and his book is a superb introduction to some of the most vita…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-349-14263-0
- EAN: 9780349142630
- Produktnummer: 22919967
- Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.6 cm x B12.3 cm x D2.3 cm 274 g
- Gewicht: 274
Über den Autor
Tim Harford is a senior columnist for the Financial Times and the presenter of Radio 4's More or Less. He was the winner of the Bastiat Prize for economic journalism in 2006, and More or Less was commended for excellence in journalism by the Royal Statistical Society in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Harford lives in Oxford with his wife and three children, and is a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. His other books include The Undercover Economist, The Logic of Life and Adapt.
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