Başlık:
Fifty things that made the modern economy
Yazar:
Harford, Tim, 1973- author.
ISBN:
9781408709115
9781408709122
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
343 pages ; 24 cm
İçerik:
The plough. WINNERS AND LOSERS: The gramophone -- Barbed wire -- Seller feedback -- Google search -- Passports -- Robots -- The welfare state. REINVENTING HOW WE LIVE: Infant formula -- TV dinners -- The pill -- Video games -- Market research -- Air conditioning -- Department stores. INVENTING NEW SYSTEMS: The Dynamo -- The shipping container -- The barcode -- The cold chain -- Tradable debt and the tally stick -- Billy bookcase -- The elevator. IDEAS ABOUT IDEAS: Cuneiform -- Public key cryptography -- Double-entry bookkeeping -- Limited liability companies -- Management consulting -- Intellectual property -- The compiler. WHERE DO INVENTIONS COME FROM? The iPhone -- Diesel engines -- Clocks -- The Haber-Bosch process -- Radar -- Batteries -- Plastic. THE VISIBLE HAND: The bank -- Razors and blades -- Tax havens -- Leaded petrol -- Antibiotics in farming -- M-Pesa -- Property registers. INVENTING THE WHEEL: Paper -- Index funds -- The S-bend -- Paper money -- Concrete -- Insurance -- Looking forward -- The light bulb.
Özet:
"From 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. Hidden connections will be laid bare: how the barcode undermined family corner shops; why the gramophone widened inequality; how barbed wire shaped America. We'll meet the characters who developed some of these inventions, profited from them, or were ruined by them. We'll trace the economic principles that help to explain their transformative effects. And we'll ask what lessons we can learn to make wise use of future inventions, in a world where the pace of innovation will only accelerate."
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