Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy

“The washing machine didn’t save much time, and the ready meal did, because we were willing to stink but we weren’t willing to starve.”
From the plow to the lightbulb, this book goes through 50 inventions and the social-economic impact that they had on the world around them. I'm a sucker for an easy to read popular economics book and this was just that.

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