Gereduceerde Prijs More The 10,000-year Rise of the World Economy – Philip Coggan

Where did all this stuff come from? There are seventeen ingredients in a typical tube of toothpaste, from titanium dioxide to xanthum gum, and that’s not counting the tube. Everything had to come from somewhere and someone had to bring it all together. The humblest household product reveals a web of enterprise that stretches around the globe. More is the story of how we spun that web. It begins with the earliest glimmerings of long-distance trade – obsidian blades that made their way from what is now Turkey…