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Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The Undercover Economist - famed for his explanations - now offers solutions. Tim Harford introduces a new way of thinking about how to solve the world's most urgent problems, from climate change to terrorism, African poverty to global finance - even the problems we encounter in our own daily lives. ...Show more
Dear Undercover Economist: The Very Best Letters from the "Dear Economist" Column by Tim Harford
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Are there tangible benefits in flossing? Is it wrong to fake orgasms? What does the perfect online dating ad look like? Should we bother doing the ironing? Is it really impossible to buy the perfect Christmas gift? (Other than this book, of course.) Economists might not be the first people you would thi ...Show more
Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy by Tim Harford
34.99 NZD
Category: History
Fifty Inventions that Made the Modern Economy paints the epic picture of economic change in an intimate way, by telling the stories of tools and ideas that had far-reaching and unexpected consequences.
How to Make the World Add Up by Tim Harford
37.99 NZD
Category: Finance & Economics
'If you aren't in love with stats before reading this book, you will be by the time you're done. Powerful, persuasive, and in these truth-defying times, indispensable' - Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women 'Fabulously readable, lucid, witty and authoritative . . . Every politician and jour ...Show more
How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers by Tim Harford
29.99 NZD
Category: Science
Factfulness meets How to Be Right in this major new book from globally bestselling economist Tim Harford'Tim Harford is our most likeable champion of reason and rigour... clear, clever and always highly readable' Times Books of the Year 'If you aren't in love with stats before reading this book, you wil ...Show more
The Logic of Life by Tim Harford
32.99 NZD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
'Truly eye-opening ...There is almost no situation that Harford cannot dissect with his sharp economist's tools ...economics has never been this cool' NEW STATESMAN If humans are so clever, why do we smoke and gamble, or take drugs, or fall in love? Is this really rational behaviour? And how come your i ...Show more
The Logic of Life : Uncovering the New Economics of Everything by Tim Harford
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST showed how ordinary economics explained everyday curiosities, such as the price of a cup of coffee and the traffic jam on the way to the supermarket. THE LOGIC OF LIFE shows how the new economics of rational choice theory explains much, much more. Drug addicts and teenage mugger ...Show more
The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
34.99 NZD
Category: Business
Who makes most money from the demand for cappucinos early in the morning at Waterloo Station? Why is it impossible to get a foot on the property ladder? How do the Mafia make money from laundries when street gangs pushing drugs dont? Who really benefits from immigration? How can China, in just 50 years, ...Show more
The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
27.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
Who makes most money from the demand for cappuccinos early in the morning at Waterloo Station? Why is it impossible to get a foot on the property ladder? How does the Mafia make money from laundries when street gangs pushing drugs don't? Who really benefits from immigration? How can China, in just fifty ...Show more
The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Ruin an Economy in Ten Chapters by Tim Harford
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A million readers bought The Undercover Economist to get the lowdown on how economics works on a small scale, in our everyday lives. Since then, economics has become big news. Crises, austerity, riots, bonuses - all are in the headlines all the time. But how does this large-scale economic world really w ...Show more
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