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Key Features

• The world economy defies comprehension
• A continuouslychanging system of immense complexity
• It offers over ten billion distinct products and services doubles in size every fifteen years and links almost every one of the planets seven billion people
• It delivers astonishing luxury to hundreds of millions
• It also leaves hundreds of millions behind puts tremendous strains on the ecosystem and has an alarming habit of stalling Nobody is in charge of it
• Indeed no individual understands more than a fraction of whats going on

Product Description

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 upsidedown The world economy defies comprehension A continuouslychanging system of immense complexity it offers over ten billion distinct products and services doubles in size every fifteen years and links almost every one of the planets seven billion people It delivers astonishing luxury to hundreds of millions It also leaves hundreds of millions behind puts tremendous strains on the ecosystem and has an alarming habit of stalling Nobody is in charge of it Indeed no individual understands more than a fraction of whats going on

Specifications

Brand Hachette UK Distribution Ltd

Title Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy

Type Read and Learn

Number of Pages 352

Language English

Format Paperback

Author Tim Harford

Publishing Dates 14 September 2018

Publisher Abacus

Items Included in the Package

1 Book