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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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Sanitary towel
50 Things That Made the Modern Economy
9 minutes
5 years ago
Sanitary towel

In the early 20th Century, makers of sanitary towels had to find a way to sell an item that some people found too embarrassing to mention. In some parts of the world, that stigma still hasn't gone away. Tim Harford charts the controversial history of a quietly revolutionary product.

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.