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Fifty Inventions that Shaped 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.

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I love these fact-filled micro-documentaries, steeped in history... A masterclass in socioeconomic storytelling Financial Times on BBC World Service´s Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy

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Harford, TimTim Harford is a senior columnist for the Financial Times and the presenter of Radio 4´s More or Less. He was the winner of the Bastiat Prize for economic journalism in 2006, and More or Less was commended for excellence in journalism by the Royal Statistical Society in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Harford lives in Oxford with his wife and three children, and is a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. His other books include The Undercover Economist, The Logic of Life and Adapt.

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