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50 Things That Made the Modern Economy

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50 Things That Made the Modern Economy

How Louis Bachelier Scooped Economists by Half a Century

A forgotten French mathematician is the focus of our programme. He anticipated both Einstein's...

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Number 51

Revealed – the winning 51st Thing! What won the vote to be added to our list of 50? We asked for...

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Plough

The plough was a simple yet transformative technology. It was the plough that kick-started...

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Cold Chain

The global supply chain that keeps perishable goods at controlled temperatures has revolutionised...

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Welfare State

The same basic idea links every welfare state: that the ultimate responsibility for ensuring...

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Property Register

Ensuring property rights for the world's poor could unlock trillions in ‘dead capital’. According...

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Searching for 51

Vote for the 51st Thing! What should be the “thing” that we explore in a special final episode?...

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Management Consulting

Vote for the 51st Thing! Exclusive podcast content – find out our shortlist after hearing the...

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Double-entry Bookkeeping

Luca Pacioli was a renaissance man – he was a conjuror, a master of chess, a lover of puzzles, a...

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S-Bend

If you live in a city with modern sanitation, it’s hard to imagine daily life being permeated...

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Radar

Join our search for the 51st Thing! Exclusive podcast content – find out all about it after...

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Market Research

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Plastic

A couple of decades after Leo Baekeland invented the first fully synthetic plastic – Bakelite –...

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Seller Feedback

Why should we get into a stranger’s car – or buy a stranger’s laser pointer? In 1997, eBay...

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Paper Money

A young Venetian merchant named Marco Polo wrote a remarkable book chronicling his travels in...

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Limited Liability Company

Nicholas Murray Butler was one of the great thinkers of his age: philosopher; Nobel Peace...

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Dynamo

You might think electricity had an immediate and transformative impact on economic productivity....

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Leaded Petrol

In the 1920s lead was added to petrol. It made cars more powerful and was, according to its...

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Department Store

Flamboyant American retailer Harry Gordon Selfridge introduced Londoners to a whole new shopping...

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Barbed Wired

In 1876 John Warne Gates described the new product he hoped to sell as “lighter than air,...

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