蜜芽传媒 World Service - 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy

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Refrigeration revolutionised the food industry, and other industries too

Do welfare states boost economic growth, or stunt it? It鈥檚 not an easy question to answer

Property rights for the world's poor could unlock trillions in 鈥榙ead capital鈥�

The extra 鈥渢hing鈥� 鈥� what should it be?

If managers often have a bad reputation, what about those who tell them how to manage?

Renaissance man Luca Pacioli wrote the definitive book on double-entry bookkeeping

The S-bend was a pipe with a curve in it, an invention that led to public sanitation

A high-tech 鈥榙eath ray鈥� capable of zapping sheep led to the invention of radar

Market research marked a shift from a producer-led to consumer-led approach to business

We make so much plastic these days that it takes about eight percent of oil production