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  • The Undercover Economist, Revised and Updated Edition

    Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor - and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!

    by Tim Harford ...
    With over one million copies sold, The Undercover Economist has been hailed worldwide as a fantastic guide to the fundamental principles of economics. An economist's version of The Way Things Work, this engaging volume is part Economics 101 and part exposé of the economic principles lurking behind daily events, explaining everything from traffic jams to high coffee prices. New to this edition: ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy

    by Tim Harford ...
    **NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 by BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND AMAZONLook out for Tim's next book, The Data Detective*.*A lively history seen through the fifty inventions that shaped it most profoundly, by the bestselling author of The Undercover Economist and Messy.**Who thought up paper money? What was the secret element that made the Gutenberg printing press possible? And what ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Data Detective

    Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics

    by Tim Harford ...
    From “one of the great (greatest?) contemporary popular writers on economics” (Tyler Cowen) comes a smart, lively, and encouraging rethinking of how to use statistics.**Today we think statistics are the enemy, numbers used to mislead and confuse us. That’s a mistake, Tim Harford says in The Data Detective. We shouldn’t be suspicious of statistics—we need to understand what they mean and how they ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Messy

    The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives

    by Tim Harford ...
    **“Utterly fascinating. Tim Harford shows that if you want to be creative and resilient, you need a little more disorder in your world.” —Adam Grant, New York Times-bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take“Engrossing.” —New York TimesFrom the award-winning columnist and author of the national bestseller The Undercover Economist comes a provocative big idea book about the genuine benefits ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Logic of Life

    The Rational Economics of an Irrational World

    by Tim Harford ...
    In The Logic of Life, bestselling author Tim Harford quite simply makes sense of this world.Life often seems to defy logic. The receptionist is clearly smarter than the boss who earns fifty times her salary. Arbitrary lines starkly divide the desirable districts of the city from the dangerous ones. Voters flock to the polling booths to elect candidates who’ll rip them off to favour special ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Dear Undercover Economist

    Priceless Advice on Money, Work, Sex, Kids, and Life's Other Challenges

    by Tim Harford ...
    A fantastic collection of witty, insightful, and often outrageous Financial Times columns that answer readers’ personal dilemmas using the latest economic theory.Tim Harford employs his idiosyncratic style to explain economic principles so that anyone can understand them—and reveals how they apply to (and can solve) issues in everyday life. Does money buy happiness? Is “the one” really out there? ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Adapt

    Why Success Always Starts with Failure

    by Tim Harford ...
    The Undercover Economist - famed for his explanations - now offers solutions.Tim Harford introduces a new way of thinking about how to solve the world's most urgent problems, from climate change to terrorism, African poverty to global finance - even the problems we encounter in our own daily lives. When faced with such challenges, we instinctively look to leaders, experts, and gurus to provide us ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Undercover Economist Strikes Back

    How to Run--or Ruin--an Economy

    by Tim Harford ...
    A provocative and lively exploration of the increasingly important world of macroeconomics, by the author of the bestselling The Undercover Economist.Thanks to the worldwide financial upheaval, economics is no longer a topic we can ignore. From politicians to hedge fund managers to middle-class IRA holders, everyone must pay attention to how and why the global economy works the way it does.Enter ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Undercover Economist : Exposing Why The Rich Are Rich, The Poor Are Poor--And Why You Can Never Buy A Decent Used Car!

    by Tim Harford ...
    An economist's version of The Way Things Work, this engaging volume is part field guide to economics and part expose of the economic principles lurking behind daily events, explaining everything from traffic jams to high coffee prices. The Undercover Economist is for anyone who's wondered why the gap between rich and poor nations is so great, or why they can't seem to find a decent second-hand car ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Undercover Economist:Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor--and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!

    Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor--and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!

    by Tim Harford ...
    An economist's version of The Way Things Work, this engaging volume is part field guide to economics and part expose of the economic principles lurking behind daily events, explaining everything from traffic jams to high coffee prices. The Undercover Economist is for anyone who's wondered why the gap between rich and poor nations is so great, or why they can't seem to find a decent second-hand car ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy

    by Tim Harford ...
    Narrated by Roger Davis ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 16 min

    A lively history seen through the fifty inventions that shaped it most profoundly, by the bestselling author of The Undercover Economist and Messy.Who thought up paper money? What was the secret element that made the Gutenberg printing press possible? And what is the connection between The Da Vinci Code and the collapse of Lehman Brothers?Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy paints an . ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Undercover Economist

    Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor--and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!

    by Tim Harford ...
    Narrated by Robert Ian Mackenzie ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 8 min

    Author of the extremely popular "Dear Economist" column in Financial Times, Tim Harford reveals the economics behind everyday phenomena in this highly entertaining and informative book. Can a book about economics be fun to read? It can when Harford takes the reins, using his trademark wit to explain why it costs an arm and a leg to buy a cappuccino and why it's nearly impossible to purchase a ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus