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
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. Steven D. Levitt – Professor of Economics, University of Chicago ...
Fifty Things That Made The Modern Economy - Tim Harford
Drawing from the hugely popular BBC radio program and podcast “ 50 Things That Made The Modern Economy,” I discuss the inventions that have transformed the ways we work, play and live. From the plough to artificial intelligence, from Gillette’s disposable razor to Ikea’s Billy bookcase, I recount each invention’s own memorable story ...
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 ...
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 | Tim Harford. 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 ...
The Next Fifty Things - Tim Harford
“Endlessly insightful and full of surprises — exactly what you would expect from Tim Harford.” Bill Bryson. In Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy, I presented a selection of fifty radical inventions that changed the world. Now, in this new book, The Next Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy, I’m back with another array of remarkable, memorable, curious …
Cautionary Tales - Tim Harford
Cautionary Tales – Reason, Wrath and Rebellion on the High Seas. Early morning, April 1789. Captain Bligh is abruptly dragged from his cabin. Wrists bound, bayonet pressed to his chest, he and a few loyal sailors are forced into a tiny launch and set adrift on the vast Pacific Ocean. This far from land, no-one is likely to survive...
Undercover Economist - Tim Harford
Undercover Economist | Tim Harford. My weekly column in the Financial Times on Saturdays, explaining the economic ideas around us every day. This column was inspired by my book and began in 2005. What we can and can’t say about what we do and don’t know.
The best podcasts of 2021 - Tim Harford
Nov 29, 2021 · Share This. I'll admit, this is a somewhat arbitrary mix of podcasts that are noteworthy because they are particularly wonderful, noteworthy because I feel they are underappreciated, and noteworthy because they are new. Still - they are all free, and truly we live in an age of wonders. Sideways - Matthew Syed's superb new (ish) podcast from the….