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The undercover economist / Tim Harford.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harford, Tim, 1973- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic history--1990-.
- Economic history.
- Economics.
- Consumer education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- Revised and updated edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- A newly revised and updated edition of Tim Harford's bestselling guide to the economics of everyday life, explaining everything from traffic jams to high coffee prices. "As Tim Harford demonstrates brilliantly in this enjoyable book, the powerful underlying ideas of economics can, in the hands of the right person, illuminate every aspect of the world we inhabit."--Martin Wolf, The Financial Times.
- Contents:
- Preface to the second edition
- Introduction
- Who pays for your coffee?
- What supermarkets don't want you to know
- Perfect markets and the "world of truth"
- Crosstown traffic
- The inside story
- Rotten investments and rotten eggs
- The men who knew the value of nothing
- Why poor countries are poor
- Beer, fries, and globalization
- How China grew rich
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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