Also by Tim Harford
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
1. The Plow
Introduction
I. Winners and Losers
2. The Gramophone
3. Barbed Wire
4. Seller Feedback
5. Google Search
6. Passports
7. Robots
8. The Welfare State
II. Reinventing How We Live
9. Infant Formula
10. TV Dinners
11. The Pill
12. Video Games
13. Market Research
14. Air-Conditioning
15. Department Stores
III. Inventing New Systems
16. The Dynamo
17. The Shipping Container
18. The Bar Code
19. The Cold Chain
20. Tradable Debt and the Tally Stick
21. The Billy Bookcase
22. The Elevator
IV. Ideas About Ideas
23. Cuneiform
24. Public-Key Cryptography
25. Double-Entry Bookkeeping
26. Limited Liability Companies
27. Management Consulting
28. Intellectual Property
29. The Compiler
V. Where Do Inventions Come From?
30. The iPhone
31. Diesel Engines
32. Clocks
33. Chemical Fertilizer
34. Radar
35. Batteries
36. Plastic
VI. The Visible Hand
37. The Bank
38. Razors and Blades
39. Tax Havens
40. Leaded Gasoline
41. Antibiotics in Farming
42. M-Pesa
43. Property Registers
VII. Inventing the Wheel
44. Paper
45. Index Funds
46. The S-Bend
47. Paper Money
48. Concrete
49. Insurance
Conclusion: Looking Forward
50. Epilogue: The Lightbulb
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
About the Author