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The next fifty things that made the modern economy / Tim Harford.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : The Bridge Street Press, 2020Description: 344 páginas ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781408712665
  • 9781408712658
Other title:
  • Next 50 things that made the modern economy
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HC 59 .15 H356 2020
Contents:
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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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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