Langstroth Hive
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Humans have valued bees for their honey for thousands of years \\u2013 and economists have long admired bees for their cooperative work ethic, too. But few of us, whether economists, honey-lovers, or both, have quite appreciated just how much the honey bee has been industrialised \\u2013 and the simple yet radical invention that made that industrialisation possible. As Tim Harford explains, it is a sign of just how far the modern market economy has penetrated that it now reaches deep into the heart of the beehive.
Producer: Ben Crighton\\nEditor: Richard Vadon
(Image: Bee keeper lifting shelf out of hive, Credit: MIlan Jovic/Getty Images)
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