Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy

From the plough to the baby bottle, there are several inventions that we take for granted in our everyday life. In this book, Financial Times columnist Tim Harford recounts fifty of history's inventions in curious, surprising, and memorable stories. From how the bar code undermined family corners stores and why the gramophone widened inequality, you will learn about the people who developed these inventions, their goals, who profited, and who were ruined by them in a domino chain of events. Rarely do we get to see a tracking of such transformative effects, and Harford outlines it all in a book of history, economics, and biography.

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