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016736
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London, Abacus, 2012.
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310pRed Spine
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Everything we know about solving the world's problems is wrong. Out: Plans, experts and above all, leaders. In: Adapting - improvise rather than plan; fail, learn, and try again In this groundbreaking new book, Tim Harford shows how the world's most complex and important problems - including terrorism, climate change, poverty, innovation, and the financial crisis - can only be solved from the bottom up by rapid experimenting and adapting. From a spaceport in the Mojave Desert to the street battles of Iraq, from a blazing offshore drilling rig to everyday decisions in our business and personal lives, this is a handbook for surviving - and prospering - in our complex and ever-shifting world.
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9780349121512 Pb.
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| I00883 | 153.43/HAR | Main | On Shelf | General | |
| I02136 | 153.43/HAR | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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023269
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London, Little, Brown, 2017.
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343pWhite spine
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Who thought up paper money? How did the contraceptive pill change the face of the legal profession? Why was the horse collar as important for human progress as the steam engine? How did the humble spreadsheet turn the world of finance upside-down? The world economy defies comprehension. A continuously-changing system of immense complexity, it offers over ten billion distinct products and services, doubles in size every fifteen years, and links almost every one of the planet's seven billion people. It delivers astonishing luxury to hundreds of millions. It also leaves hundreds of millions behind, puts tremendous strains on the ecosystem, and has an alarming habit of stalling. Nobody is in charge of it. Indeed, no individual understands more than a fraction of what's going on. How can we make sense of this bewildering system on which our lives depend? Hidden connections will be laid bare: how the barcode undermined family corner shops; why the gramophone widened inequality; how barbed wire shaped America. We'll meet the characters who developed some of these inventions, profited from them, or were ruined by them. We'll trace the economic principles that help to explain their transformative effects. And we'll ask what lessons we can learn to make wise use of future inventions, in a world where the pace of innovation will only accelerate.
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9781408709122 Pb.
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022265
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London, Little, Brown and Company, 2016.
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327pWhite spine
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The urge to tidiness seems to be rooted deep in the human psyche. Many of us feel threatened by anything that is vague, unplanned, scattered around or hard to describe. We find comfort in having a script to rely on, a system to follow, in being able to categorise and file away. We all benefit from tidy organisation - up to a point. A large library needs a reference system. Global trade needs the shipping container. Scientific collaboration needs measurement units. But the forces of tidiness have marched too far. Corporate middle managers and government bureaucrats have long tended to insist that everything must have a label, a number and a logical place in a logical system. Now that they are armed with computers and serial numbers, there is little to hold this tidy-mindedness in check. It's even spilling into our personal lives, as we corral our children into sanitised play areas or entrust our quest for love to the soulless algorithms of dating websites. Order is imposed when chaos would be more productive. Or if not chaos, then . . . messiness. The trouble with tidiness is that, in excess, it becomes rigid, fragile and sterile. In MESSY, Tim Harford reveals how qualities we value more than ever - responsiveness, resilience and creativity - simply cannot be disentangled from the messy soil that produces them. This, then, is a book about the benefits of being messy: messy in our private lives; messy in the office, with piles of paper on the desk and unread spreadsheets; messy in the recording studio, the laboratory or in preparing for an important presentation; and messy in our approach to business, politics and economics, leaving things vague, diverse and uncomfortably made-up-on-the-spot. It's time to rediscover the benefits of a little mess.
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Creativity
Collaboration
Workplaces
Improvisation
Winning
Incentives
Automation
Resilience
Life
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9781408706763 Pb.
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012843
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London, Abacus, 2009.
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xii, 272pWhite spine
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A fascinating study of how society is shaped by hidden pay-offs and punishments, of how behaviour can be irrational ike smoking and taking drugs, of how your idiot boss is overpaid and how so-called anti-social individuals like prostitutes, rascists and revolutionaries also comply with economic logic.
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Introducing the logic of life
Las Vegas
Is divorce underrated?
Why your boss is overpaid
In the neighbourhood
The dangers of rational rascism
The world is spiky
Rational revolutions
A million years of logic
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978-0-349-12041-6 Pb.
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012844
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London, Abacus, 2006.
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x, 278pWhite Spine
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If you ever wondered why the gap between rich and poor nations is so great, why it's so difficult to get a foot on the property ladder or why you can't buy a decent second-hand car, this book offers the hidden story behind forces that shape our day-to-day lives.
A lively and witty guide to the economics of everyday life, written by one of the foremost economic thinkers of this generation.
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Who pays for your coffee?
What supermarkets don't want you to know
Perfect markets and the world of 'truth'
Crosstown traffic
The inside story
Rational insanity
The men who knew the value of nothing
Why poor countries are poor
Beer, chips and globalisation
How China grew rich
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9780349119854 Pb.
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| I00496 | 330.90511/HAR | Main | Missing | General | |
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