Brief Review - Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy, Tim Harford

So many books have been written about all the great inventions that make our lives as comfortable as they are today. In fact, we take for granted most of them - inventions that help us travel to any part of the globe within hours, to communicate with people in any part of the world at the touch of a button, to process/store food without having to run behind it everyday, ability to change the landscape around us at will, to state a few. This book speaks about many such inventions too, but with a difference.

Without making a tale out of each of the inventions and delving into what led their inventors to their 'eureka' moment, this book defines the inventions and the social-economic impact that these had on the world around them. Crisp, clear and a pleasure to read.