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Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy by Tim Harford
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Category: Business Finance Management
Based on the series produced for the BBC World Service A Financial Times and Bloomberg Business Week Book of the Year 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 di ...Show more
Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy by Tim Harford
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Category: Business Finance Management
Fifty Inventions that Made the Modern Economy paints the epic picture of economic change in an intimate way, by telling the stories of tools and ideas that had far-reaching and unexpected consequences.
How to Make the World Add Up by Tim Harford
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Category: Business Finance Management
'If you aren't in love with stats before reading this book, you will be by the time you're done. Powerful, persuasive, and in these truth-defying times, indispensable' - Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women 'Fabulously readable, lucid, witty and authoritative . . . Every politician and jour ...Show more
How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers by Tim Harford
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Category: Science & Natural History
Factfulness meets How to Be Right in this major new book from globally bestselling economist Tim Harford'Tim Harford is our most likeable champion of reason and rigour... clear, clever and always highly readable' Times Books of the Year 'If you aren't in love with stats before reading this book, you wil ...Show more
Messy - How to Be Creative & Resilitent by Tim Harford
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Category: Mind Body Spirit | Reading Level: very good
"Utterly fascinating. Tim Harford shows that if you want to be creative and resilient, you need a little more disorder in your world." --Adam Grant, New York Times-bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take "Engrossing." --New York Times From the award-winning columnist and author of the ...Show more
Messy: How to Be Creative and Resilient in a Tidy-Minded World by Tim Harford
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Category: Health
The urge to tidiness seems to be rooted deep in the human psyche. Many of us feel threatened by anything that is vague, unplanned, scattered around or hard to describe. We find comfort in having a script to rely on, a system to follow, in being able to categorise and file away. We all benefit from tidy ...Show more
Next Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy by Tim Harford
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Category: Business Finance Management
BILL BRYSON 'Every Tim Harford book is cause for celebration' MALCOLM GLADWELL In Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy, the revolutionary, acclaimed book, radio series and podcast, bestselling economist Tim Harford introduced us to a selection of fifty radical inventions that chan ...Show more
The Next Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy by Tim Harford
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Category: Business Finance Management
'Endlessly insightful and full of surprises - exactly what you would expect from Tim Harford'BILL BRYSON'Entertaining . . . A lively introduction to some of the most ingenious, yet often overlooked inventions that have changed the way we live' The Times'Every Tim Harford book is cause for celebration'MA ...Show more
The Truth Detective by Tim Harford
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Category: Non-Fiction
'Tim Harford is peerless at making sense of a complicated world and our place within it. This is a book that all children should read' - Matthew Syed Did you know that a toy spaceship can teach you about inflation? Or that a pooping cow can show you how to invest your pocket money? And that even the gre ...Show more
The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
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Category: Business Finance Management | Reading Level: very good
Who makes most money from the demand for cappuccinos early in the morning at Waterloo Station? Why is it impossible to get a foot on the property ladder? How does the Mafia make money from laundries when street gangs pushing drugs don't? Who really benefits from immigration? How can China, in just fifty ...Show more
The Undercover Economist - Abacus 40th edition by Tim Harford
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Category: Business Finance Management | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary
Ever wondered why the gap between rich and poor nations is so great, or why it's so difficult to get a foot on the property ladder, or where the banks went wrong? This book offers the hidden story behind these and other forces that shape our day-to-day lives, often without our knowing it. 'Lively and wi ...Show more
The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Ruin an Economy in Ten Chapters by Tim Harford
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Category: Business Finance Management
A million readers bought The Undercover Economist to get the lowdown on how economics works on a small scale, in our everyday lives. Since then, economics has become big news. Crises, austerity, riots, bonuses - all are in the headlines all the time. But how does this large-scale economic world really w ...Show more