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Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford
$30.00 NZD
Category: Business
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. ...Show more
Dear Undercover Economist: The Very Best Letters from the "Dear Economist" Column by Tim Harford
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Are there tangible benefits in flossing? Is it wrong to fake orgasms? What does the perfect online dating ad look like? Should we bother doing the ironing? Is it really impossible to buy the perfect Christmas gift? (Other than this book, of course.) Economists might not be the first people you would thi ...Show more
Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy by Tim Harford
$35.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Fifty Inventions that Made the Modern Economy paints the epic picture of economic change in an intimate way, by telling the stories of tools and ideas that had far-reaching and unexpected consequences.
How to Make the World Add Up by Tim Harford
$37.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
'If you aren't in love with stats before reading this book, you will be by the time you're done. Powerful, persuasive, and in these truth-defying times, indispensable' - Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women 'Fabulously readable, lucid, witty and authoritative . . . Every politician and jour ...Show more
How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers by Tim Harford
$24.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Factfulness meets How to Be Right in this major new book from globally bestselling economist Tim Harford'Tim Harford is our most likeable champion of reason and rigour... clear, clever and always highly readable' Times Books of the Year 'If you aren't in love with stats before reading this book, you wil ...Show more
Messy - How to Be Creative & Resilitent by Tim Harford
$38.00 NZD
Category: Business | Reading Level: very good
"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 Times From the award-winning columnist and author of the ...Show more
Messy: How to Be Creative and Resilient in a Tidy-Minded World by Tim Harford
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
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 a script to rely on, a system to follow, in being able to categorise and file away. We all benefit from tidy ...Show more
Next Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy by Tim Harford
$37.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
BILL BRYSON 'Every Tim Harford book is cause for celebration' MALCOLM GLADWELL In Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy, the revolutionary, acclaimed book, radio series and podcast, bestselling economist Tim Harford introduced us to a selection of fifty radical inventions that chan ...Show more
The Logic of Life by Tim Harford
$33.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
'Truly eye-opening ...There is almost no situation that Harford cannot dissect with his sharp economist's tools ...economics has never been this cool' NEW STATESMAN If humans are so clever, why do we smoke and gamble, or take drugs, or fall in love? Is this really rational behaviour? And how come your i ...Show more
The Logic of Life : Uncovering the New Economics of Everything by Tim Harford
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST showed how ordinary economics explained everyday curiosities, such as the price of a cup of coffee and the traffic jam on the way to the supermarket. THE LOGIC OF LIFE shows how the new economics of rational choice theory explains much, much more. Drug addicts and teenage mugger ...Show more
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