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50 Things That Made the Modern Economy
BBC World Service
110 episodes
6 months ago

Tim Harford tells the fascinating stories of inventions, ideas and innovations which have helped create the economic world.

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Tim Harford tells the fascinating stories of inventions, ideas and innovations which have helped create the economic world.

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Business
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50 Things That Made the Modern Economy
9 minutes
5 years ago
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Data is a hugely profitable commodity - if you know how to process it. Tim Harford tells the story of Herman Hollerith, and how his 19th-century machine for processing census data laid the foundations for some of the world's most valuable companies.

50 Things That Made the Modern Economy

Tim Harford tells the fascinating stories of inventions, ideas and innovations which have helped create the economic world.