"Creating the 100 Great Inventions of the Modern Economy": Understand the complex world operation logic from ordinary things in life ｜ New Book Shelf

Cover reporter Zhang Jie intern Zheng Hao

In the 19th century, the great essayist Henry David David Suloro once listed a detailed list of travel supplies, including those obvious necessary items, such as tents and matches, plus ropes, old newspapers, tape measures and amplifiers, and amplifiers. In addition, it also includes paper and stamps used for notes and writing. But strange to the writer Tim Harford was that he forgot to mention the pencil he used when he listed. Moreover, Sulor and his father made a lot of money by making high -quality pencils.

Columnist Tim Harford likes to appreciate things that people are habitually looking at. In "The Invention of the Hyundai Economy", he told 100 stories about how to influence the modern economy. These inventions are all common in our daily lives that they have been ignored, but they have played an important role in the process of world economic operation. For example, bricks, pencils, "likes" buttons, glass paper, milk powder, barcode, bicycle, concrete, limited liability companies, etc., telling their role in shaping the world economy from the process of appearing to the world. From the common ordinary things in life, you can also understand the operating logic of the complex world.

Tim Harford believes that compared with the well -known technological breakthroughs such as steam engines or computers, these rarely described inventions and lesson lessons may bring more inspiration. The impact of significant inventions is not only to provide a method of solving specific problems, but also its unpredictable impact on social and economic structure.

As a popular readings full of stories, the author does not use too many professional terms and complex charts. Instead, it uses a novel perspective and popular language to help people understand the principles of economics, which requires creativity in itself.

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