The next fifty things that made the modern economy / Tim Harford.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : The Bridge Street Press, 2020Description: 344 páginas ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781408712665
- 9781408712658
- Next 50 things that made the modern economy
- HC 59 .15 H356 2020
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Préstamo | Biblioteca Pedro Arrupe | Acervo | HC 59 .15 H356 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 157925 |
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Introduction: the pencil -- part 1. Deceptively simple -- Bricks -- The factory -- The postage stamp -- Bicycles -- Spectacles -- Canned foods -- Auctions -- part 2. Selling the dream -- Tulips -- Queen's ware -- The Bonsack machine -- The sewing machine -- The mail-order catalogue -- Fast-food franchises -- Fundraising appeals -- Santa Claus -- part 3. Moving money -- SWIFT -- Credit cards -- Stock options -- The Vickrey turnstile -- The blockchain -- part 4. Invisible systems -- Interchangeable parts -- RFID -- The Interface Message Processor -- CPS -- part 5. Secrets and lies -- The movable-type printing press -- Menstrual pads -- CCTV -- Pornography -- Prohibition -- 'Like' -- part 6. Working together -- Cassava processing -- Pensions -- QWERTY -- The Langstroth hive -- Dams -- part 7. No Planet B -- Fire -- Oil -- Vulcanisation -- The Wardian case -- Cellophane -- Recycling -- Dwarf wheat -- Solar photovoltaics -- part 8. Our robot overlords -- The Hollerith Punch-card machine -- The gyroscope -- Spreadsheets -- The chatbot -- The CubeSat -- The slot machine -- Chess algorithms.
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