01025pamaa2200217 4500 0000050907 20121213090000.0 121213s2006 eng 9780349119854 (pbk.) HC59.15 HAR 2006 Harford The undercover economist Tim Harford. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. x, 278 p.; 25 cm. FOBCAL Includes bibliographical references and index Preface to the second edition -- Introduction -- Who pays for your coffee? -- What supermarkets don?t want you to know -- Perfect markets and the "world of truth" -- Crosstown traffic -- The inside story -- Rotten investments and rotten eggs -- The men who knew the value of nothing -- Why poor countries are poor -- Beer, fries, and globalization -- How China grew rich -- Notes -- Index Economic history -- 1990- Economics Consumer education http://www.oup.com