Drawn: Winners of Tim Harford’s Latest Economics Blockbuster!

 Tim Harford's latest Economics book was published on 29 August 2013 and the results of the competition to win a copy of the book have been drawn by Tim.

The correct answers to the three quiz questions were:

Q1: When Coca-Cola first launched in 1886 the price of a bottle was five cents. In which year did that price first change? Answer: 1959

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/11/15/165143816/why-coke-cost-a-nickel-for-70-years

Q2: Which one of these economists is a winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics? Answer: Chris Pissarides

http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/staff/person.asp?id=760

Q3: Which of these programmes on BBC Radio 4 is NOT presented by Tim Harford? Answer: The Bottom Line

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006sz6t

How was the draw done? Each of the correct entries was assigned a random number between 1-100.000 which were then listed in ascending order. Tim Harford himself then picked ten numbers related to the number of entries on the ordered list! These are the ten that Tim selected: The winners are:

Roxanne Goacher (Haslemere)

Nicholas Tomaszewski (York)

Victoria Gibson (London)

Liz Price (Oxford)

Seb McCue (Portsmouth)

Kirsten Russell (Terrington)

Jacqui Nicholl (Ilkley)

George Colgan( Dunsfold)

Judith Underwood( Brentwood)

Shamima Manzoor( Watford)

We'll post the books out tomorrow. Enjoy!

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