01214nam a22002057a 4500 20250814105513.0 220117b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0316731161 AL eng 23 339.5 HARU Tim Harford 235462 Undercover Economist Great Britain Little Brown 2006 ix,278p PB 23x15cm The economy [isn’t] a bunch of rather dull statistics with names like GDP (gross domestic product),” notes Tim Harford, columnist and regular guest on NPR’s Marketplace, “economics is about who gets what and why.” In this acclaimed and riveting book–part exposé, part user’s manual–the astute and entertaining columnist from the Financial Times demystifies the ways in which money works in the world. From why the coffee in your cup costs so much to why efficiency is not necessarily the answer to ensuring a fair society, from improving health care to curing crosstown traffic–all the dirty little secrets of dollars and cents are delightfully revealed by The Undercover Economist. Economic history 13337 Economics 13338 ddc GF 221195 221195 0 0 ddc 0 0 ECO AL AL 2013-03-23 1 339.5 HARU GF01709 2025-08-14 10:44:55 2025-07-22 2022-01-17 GF