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 …
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 …
It’s the uncertainty, not the delay, that gets you in the end
Sep 22, 2022 · 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, …
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 …
Should everyone earn their pay rise? | Tim Harford
Oct 24, 2024 · 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 …
My biggest productivity mistake | Tim Harford
Oct 17, 2024 · 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 …
How to give a good speech - Tim Harford
Nov 21, 2024 · There are many ways to give a terrible speech. The chief executive who pulls out a sheaf of densely written text and robotically reads it aloud. The management consultant …
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 …
What we can and can’t say about what we do and don’t know
Oct 3, 2024 · Earlier in the summer, the Democratic party and its supporters faced a difficult decision: should they gently but firmly sideline President Joe Biden from the 2024 ticket? …
The art of making good misstakes - Tim Harford
Oct 12, 2023 · Do good teams make fewer mistakes? It seems a reasonable hypothesis. But in the early 1990s, when a young researcher looked at evidence from medical teams at two …