Tim Harford, the Undercover Economist
WEBTim 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
WEBBrief 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 ...
How a mind-boggling device changed economic history
WEB13 hours ago · 10th October, 2024. 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 Keynes’s …
It’s the uncertainty, not the delay, that gets you in the end
WEBSep 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 ...
Fifty Things That Made The Modern Economy - Tim Harford
WEBDrawing 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 ...
Articles - Tim Harford
WEBCautionary Tales – Tim’s Tolkien obsession and Amazon Prime’s “The Rings of Power”. Tim Harford's life has been building up to this moment. In this Cautionary Conversation, he discusses the works of his favourite author J.R.R. Tolkien and the social science at play in Amazon Prime's series The Rings of Power.
What we keep getting wrong about inflation | Tim Harford
WEBOct 6, 2022 · What is inflation? The answer seems obvious: when things get more expensive, that’s inflation, and it’s bad. But an alternative view is Milton Friedman’s. In a talk in 1963, the hugely influential economist defined inflation as “a steady and sustained rise in prices” and added that “inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon”.
Archives - Tim Harford
WEBDec 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.
The Next Fifty Things - Tim Harford
WEB“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 and often unexpected ...
Undercover Economist - Tim Harford
WEBUndercover 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 …