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Revealed – the winning 51st Thing! Which β€œthing” won the vote to be added to our list of 50? Discover what it is and why it is worthy of being Number 51.

Revealed – the winning 51st Thing! What won the vote to be added to our list of 50? We asked for ideas for an extra β€œthing” that made the modern economy. We received hundreds of suggestions. Thousands of votes were cast on our shortlist of six. Now we have a winner. Discover what it is and why it is worthy of being Number 51.

Presenter: Tim Harford
Producer: Ben Crighton
Editors: Richard Knight and Richard Vadon

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Sat 28 Oct 2017 19:50GMT
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Thomas A. Durkin - Consumer Credit and the American Economy, Oxford University Press, 2014

David S. Evans and Richard Scmalensee - Playing with Plastic: The digital revolution in buying and borrowing, MIT Press, 1999

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