Title Statements
- Full title :50 inventions that shaped the modern economy / Tim Harford.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2017.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Riverhead Books
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2017.
The Physical Object
- Description:321 p. ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780735216136, 0735216134
- oclc:on1047532931
- LC Classification:T15
- Dewey Decimal:609 HARF
Table of Contents
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 cryptography ; Double-entry bookkeeping ; Limited liability companies ; Management consulting ; Intellectual property ; The compiler -- V.: Where do inventions come from?. The iPhone ; Diesel engines ; Clocks ; Chemical fertilizer ; Radar ; Batteries ; Plastic -- VI.: The visible hand. The bank ; Razors and blades ; Tax havens ; Leaded gasoline ; Antibiotics in farming ; M-Pesa ; Property registers -- VII.: Inventing the wheel. Paper ; Index funds ; The S-bend ; Paper money ; Concrete ; Insurance -- Conclusion: Looking forward -- Epilogue: The lightbulb.
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