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Tim Harford
Tim Harford

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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 “Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy”, and the podcast “Cautionary Tales”. Tim has spoken at TED, PopTech and the Sydney Opera House. He is an associate member of Nuffield College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford and of the Royal Statistical Society. Tim was made an OBE for services to improving economic understanding in the New Year honours of 2019.

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What zebras can teach us about...
It’s not often that you can squeeze zebras into a column abo...
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Shakespeare’s forgotten legacy...
There is a theory that Shakespeare was an accountant. How el...
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Cautionary Tales – Adidas v Pu...
Adi and Rudi Dassler made sports shoes together – until a fe...
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The detours on memory lane
Do you remember where you were when you heard that planes ha...
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It’s Independent Bookshop Week...
I suggest that this is a particularly good week to visit you...
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There is no need to lose our m...
A few years ago, two San Francisco doctors, Mary Mercer and ...
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Cautionary Tales – The Revenge...
In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, in 1819, Owen Chase is s...
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When your smartphone tries to ...
Back in the 1980s, the design expert Donald Norman was chatt...
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The lesson of Loki? Trade less
The pages of the Financial Times are not usually a place for...
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Cautionary Tales – When the ro...
Tim Harford is joined by Jacob Goldstein to answer your ques...