Cincuenta Innovaciones Que Han Cambiado El Mundo / Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy

Author:   Tim Harford
Publisher:   Conecta
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9788416883196


Pages:   352
Publication Date:   29 May 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Cincuenta Innovaciones Que Han Cambiado El Mundo / Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy


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LA FASCINANTE HISTORIA DE LAS IDEAS E INVENTOS QUE HAN REVOLUCIONADO LA ECONOMIA Y EL MUNDO. Imagina que hoy se acabara el mundo y fueras uno de los pocos afortunados supervivientes. Sin movil. Sin internet. Sin electricidad. Sin gasolina. Hace doce mil anos, un invento tan simple como el arado transformo la vida de la humanidad y el curso de la Historia... ?Que necesitarias hoy para mantenerte con vida y salvar la civilizacion? A traves de las fascinantes historias de cincuenta ideas e inventos, el autor de El economista camuflado explica como la innovacion puede cambiar nuestras vidas y alterar el complejo sistema economico global. Algunos inventos, como el iPhone, han proporcionado pingues beneficios a sus creadores mientras otros fueron en sus inicios un fracaso comercial, como el motor diesel. Algunos son palpables, como el hormigon. Otros, como la responsabilidad limitada de una empresa, son invenciones abstractas. Pero todos -del papel a la inteligencia artificial, de la cadena de frio a los seguros, del gramofono a la pildora anticonceptiva- tienen una historia que contar y permiten comprender el mundo en el que vivimos. Harford demuestra de nuevo su talento como analista economico y divulgador. - Times Literary Supplement Libro del ano del Financial Times, Bloomberg Business Week y Amazon Top 20. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A lively history seen through the fifty inventions that shaped it most profoundly, by the bestselling author of The Undercover Economist and Messy. Who thought up paper money? What was the secret element that made the Gutenberg printing press possible? And what is the connection between The Da Vinci Code and the collapse of Lehman Brothers? Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy paints an epic picture of change in an intimate way by telling the stories of the tools, people, and ideas that had far-reaching consequences for all of us. From the plough to artificial intelligence, from Gillette's disposable razor to IKEA's Billy bookcase, bestselling author and Financial Times columnist Tim Harford recounts each invention's own curious, surprising, and memorable story. Invention by invention, Harford reflects on how we got here and where we might go next. He lays bare often unexpected connections: how the bar code undermined family corner stores, and why the gramophone widened inequality. In the process, he introduces characters who developed some of these inventions, profited from them, and were ruined by them, as he traces the principles that helped explain their transformative effects. The result is a wise and witty book of history, economics, and biography.

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Author:   Tim Harford
Publisher:   Conecta
Imprint:   Conecta
Dimensions:   Width: 14.70cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9788416883196


ISBN 10:   841688319
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   29 May 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Language:   Spanish

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Tim Harford, profesor en el Nuffield College de Oxford, es columnista del Financial Times y presenta el programa More or Less en Radio 4 (BBC). Es autor de El economista camuflado (Debolsillo, 2011), El economista camuflado ataca de nuevo (Conecta, 2014), La logica oculta de la vida y Adaptate. En 2006 fue galardonado con el premio Bastiat de periodismo economico, en 2014 fue reconocido como Comentarista economico del ano y en el 2014-2015 recibio el premio a la excelencia periodistica de la Royal Statistical Society y el de la Society of Business Economists.

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