How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers by Tim HarfordRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 563.2 MBOverview: When was the last time you read a grand statement, accompanied by a large number and wondered whether it could really be true? Statistics are vital in helping us tell stories – we see […]
The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics by Tim HarfordRequirements: .ePUB reader, 2.3 MBOverview: 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 […]
Messy: How to Be Creative and Resilient in a Tidy-Minded World by Tim Harford Requirements: .ePUB Reader | 485 kBOverview: The urge to tidiness seems to be rooted deep in the human psyche. Many of us feel threatened by anything that is vague, unplanned, scattered around or hard to describe. We find comfort in having […]
The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run – or Ruin – an Economy by Tim HarfordRequirements: .MP3 reader, 205.89 MB Overview: 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 […]
Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy by Tim HarfordRequirements: .MP3 reader, 250 MbOverview: A lively history seen through the 50 inventions that shaped it most profoundly, by the best-selling 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 […]
