Week Thirty: 50 Things That Made The Modern Economy

Big bowl of ... meh.

Loads of interesting 'facts' but not often that well substantiated unless you want to check the references in the back of the book.

I understand it was from a podcast, or radio series or something I can't be bothered chasing down.

As a book it was too lightweight and twee, and each 'thing' felt like it was an hour of 'Connections' boiled to a 5 minute summary (minus most of the facts).

Occasionally very interesting things though, just not all of them have much more than dubious nods to the global modern economy...

I bought this one year ago (July 22nd 2017) to read on the plane home from Sydney, and quickly realised it was too light (even for a flight).