Tim Harford, the Undercover Economist
Tim Harford, “the Undercover Economist”, is a Financial Times columnist, BBC broadcaster, and the author of eight books (most recently “The Next Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy”) and the podcast “Cautionary Tales”.
Biography - Tim Harford
One line biography. Tim Harford, “the Undercover Economist”, is a Financial Times columnist, BBC broadcaster, and the author of ten books (most recently “The Truth Detective”) and the podcast “Cautionary Tales”.
Books - Tim Harford
The Logic of Life “As lively as it is smart, charming, penetrating, and wise. If you are at all interested in knowing much more than you do about how the world works, you couldn’t ask for a better guide than Harford.”
Where to find me these days - Tim Harford
2024年11月27日 · The simplest and most reliable way to see everything I create is here on this blog, via RSS or email. (I don’t share your email or use it for any other purpose.)
Should everyone earn their pay rise? | Tim Harford
2024年10月24日 · 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 20 times over, perhaps more.
It’s the uncertainty, not the delay, that gets you in the end
2022年9月22日 · 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.
Archives - Tim Harford
2024年12月12日 · Cautionary Tales – Demonising Dungeons and Dragons (Classic) by Tim Harford | Dec 20, 2024 | Cautionary Tales. When James Dallas Egbert III was reported missing from his college dorm in 1979, one of America’s most flamboyant private detectives was summoned to solve the case.
My biggest productivity mistake | Tim Harford
2024年10月17日 · From time to time, my editor will suggest that I write a column about how to be more productive. It’s a sure way to trigger imposter syndrome because, whether or not I appear productive from the outside, I certainly don’t feel productive on the inside.
Highlights - Tim Harford
At the London School of Economics, a few weeks before Christmas, in 1949, the Lionel Robbins seminar was about to begin. The prestigious event was at the razor’s edge of postwar economic thought: Robbins, a giant of economics, had made the LSE a rival to John Maynard...
The Undercover Economist - Tim Harford
“Thanks to Tim Harford’s characteristic wit and magnetic storytelling, you may not realize you’re getting an advanced course in how to understand the kinds of statistics we’re all faced with every day.”