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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Harford, Tim, author.
Title: Fifty inventions that shaped the modern economy / Tim Harford.
Description: New York : Riverhead Books, 2017. | Includes index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2017013776 (print) | LCCN 2017023702 (ebook) | ISBN 9780735216150 (ebook) | ISBN 9780735216136 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Inventions—Economic aspects—History. | Technological innovations—Economic aspects—History. | Economic history.
Classification: LCC T15 (ebook) | LCC T15 .H343 2017 (print) | DDC 609—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017013776
p. cm.
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