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