Tim Harford, the Undercover Economist
Tim is an economist, journalist and broadcaster. He is author of “The Next Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy”, “Messy”, and the million-selling “The Undercover Economist”. Tim is a senior columnist at the Financial Times, and the presenter of Radio 4’s “More or Less”, the iTunes-topping series “Fifty Things That Made ...
Biography - Tim Harford
Brief biography. Tim is an economist, journalist and broadcaster. He is author of “How To Make the World Add Up” / “The Data Detective”, “Messy”, and the million-selling “The Undercover Economist”. Tim is a senior columnist at the Financial Times, and the presenter of Radio 4’s “More or Less”, the iTunes-topping series ...
The Undercover Economist - Tim Harford
A totally delightful book that educates as well as entertains. The Undercover Economist is a rare specimen: a book on economics that will enthrall its readers. Beautifully written and argued, it brings the power of economics to life. This book should be required reading for every elected official, business leader, and university student.
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Oct 3, 2024 — Cautionary Tales – The Poet who Toppled the British Empire. by Tim Harford | Oct 11, 2024 | Cautionary Tales. India, 1930. Sarojini Naidu is marching towards a British-controlled saltwork; behind her is a long column of protestors all dressed in white. The great campaigner for India’s Independence, Gandhi, is now in jail.
It’s the uncertainty, not the delay, that gets you in the end
Sep 22, 2022 — It’s the uncertainty, not the delay, that gets you in the end. I first began to conceive of this column three and a half hours before typing these words, as I stood with my wife and children in an impossibly long queue for the Eurostar, snaking across Gare du Nord in 35C heat. The problem was not the delay, but the discomfort, the anxiety and ...
Messy - Tim Harford
Tim Harford shows that if you want to be creative and resilient, you need a little more disorder in your world. It’s a masterful case for the life-changing magic of cluttering up’. Messy: How To be Creative and Resilient in a Tidy-Minded World celebrates the benefits that messiness has in our lives: why it’s important, why we resist it ...
Archives - Tim Harford
Dec 23, 2021 — Year: 2021 How to make New Year’s Resolutions that you will keep. by Tim Harford | Dec 29, 2021 | Marginalia. As David Epstein @DavidEpstein recently pointed out in his newsletter, Range Widely, the first of January is a great time to make resolutions.
How To Make The World Add Up - Tim Harford
In his excellent book, How to Make The World Add Up, economist Tim Harford delineates 10 lessons to help us better understand new statistics or data.”. The Daily Telegraph. “An economist who literally wrote the book on communicating clearly with numbers boils down advice that will help you make better business and personal decisions.”.
Undercover Economist - Tim Harford
There are few more depressing scenes than the one painted by the anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll in her book Addiction by Design. She describes slot-machine players in Las Vegas so absorbed in their gambling that, when one of them collapses after suffering a cardiac... “Thanks to Tim Harford’s characteristic wit and magnetic storytelling ...
Undercover Economist - Tim Harford
Mozart and Haydn were composing string quartets a quarter of a millennium ago, when the industrial revolution was in its infancy. Since then, the scale of the world economy has increased at least a hundredfold and material living standards in western Europe have grown... After a spasm of concern about the role of misinformation in fuelling ...