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Timothy Douglas Harford (born 27 September 1973) is an English economic journalist who lives in Oxford.Harford is the author of four economics books and writes his long-running Financial Times column, "The Undercover Economist", syndicated in Slate magazine, which explores the economic ideas behind everyday experiences. His column in the Financial Times, "Since You Asked", ran between 2011 and 2014 and offered a sceptical look at the news of the week.Since October 2007 Harford has presented the BBC Radio 4 programme More or Less. The series segments are also available as podcasts. Subsequently Harford launched his own podcast on the podcast production network Pushkin Industries, called Cautionary Tales. Education Harford was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School and then at Brasenose College, Oxford. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and then a Master of Philosophy in Economics, in 1998. Harford said that he originally planned to drop economics when studying towards his undergraduate degree but that his Economics tutor Peter J. N. Sinclair convinced him otherwise. Personal life He lives in Oxford with his wife Fran Monks, a photographer, and their three children. Career Harford joined the Financial Times in 2003 on a fellowship in commemoration of business columnist Peter Martin. He continued to write his financial column after joining International Finance Corporation in 2004, and he rejoined the Financial Times as economics lead writer in April 2006. He is also a member of the newspaper's editorial board. Tim has spoken at TED, PopTech and the Sydney Opera House. He is a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.In August 2007, he presented a television series on the BBC, Trust Me, I'm an Economist. In October 2007, Harford replaced Andrew Dilnot on the BBC Radio 4 series More or Less. From November 2016, he presented an economic history documentary radio and podcast series 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy. Since November 2019, he has been presenting the podcast series Cautionary Tales. On 13 November 2020 he started a new podcast series on COVID-19 Vaccination called How to Vaccinate the World.Harford is managed by the agency Knight Ayton. Awards More or Less won the Royal Statistical Society's 2010 award for statistical excellence in broadcast journalism. In 2017 Harford was made an Honorary Fellow of the society. More or Less won Mensa's award for promoting intelligence in public life. Harford was awarded the Bastiat Prize for economic journalism in 2007 (shared with Jamie Whyte). In 2010 he again drew with Whyte, in second place. He was awarded the OBE in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to Improving Economic Understanding Publications The Market for Aid (2005) with Michael Klein, ISBN 978-0-8213-6229-7 The Undercover Economist (2005), ISBN 978-0-345-49401-6 The Logic of Life (2008), ISBN 978-0-8129-7787-5 Dear Undercover Economist: Priceless Advice on Money, Work, Sex, Kids, and Life's Other Challenges (2009). New York, Random House. 2009. ISBN 978-0-8129-8010-3 Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure (2011). New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-10096-4 The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run – or Ruin – an Economy (2014). Penguin Riverhead Books (US). ISBN 978-1594631405 Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives (2016). Riverhead Books. ISBN 978-1594634796 Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy (2017). Little, Brown. ISBN 978-1408709115 The Next Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy (2020). The Bridge Street Press. ISBN 978-1408712665 How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers (2020). Little, Brown. ISBN 978-1408712245 Published in North America as: The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics (2021). Riverhead Books. ISBN 978-0593084595References External links Harford's column at the Financial Times with RSS Feed All is fair in love and war and poker – details of the first episode of "Trust me, I'm an economist" (BBC) Blog at the FT, which began October 2007 Video (and audio) of interview of Tim Harford by Will Wilkinson on Bloggingheads.tv Tim Harford at TED An interview with Tim Harford about The Logic of Life on The Marketplace of Ideas Roberts, Russ (23 May 2011). "Harford on Adapt and the Virtues of Failure". EconTalk. Library of Economics and Liberty. A series of short film commentaries by Tim Harford on the work of past Nobel Laureates in economics, as part of the Nobel Perspectives project. Discover the Tim Harford popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Tim Harford books.

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  • Roots of Stone synopsis, comments

    Roots of Stone

    Hugh G. Allison

    Roots of Stone is a passionate tapestry, weaving the story of Scotland with the lives of ordinary and extraordinary people. This fascinating sweep over two thousand years of Scotla...

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    Chinese Whispers

    Ben Chu

    'Chu's smart, iconoclastic portrait dismantles seven misconceptions' [NEW STATESMEN] about modern China and offers a corrective to Western assumptions.THE CHINESE ARE THE MOST HARD...

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    The Myth of the Garage

    Chip Heath

    From Chip and Dan Heath, the bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick, comes The Myth of the Garage ... and other minor surprises, a collection of the authors' best columns ...

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    Competition is Killing Us

    Michelle Meagher

    We live in the age of big companies where rising levels of power are concentrated in the hands of a few. Yet no government or organisation has the power to regulate these titans an...

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    50 coisas que mudaram o mundo

    Tim Harford

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    What I Came To Say

    Raymond Williams

    A collection of the writings of Raymond Williams, who many considered to be the most significant postwar intellectual in Britain. He wrote on diverse subjects, and his books includ...

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    The Fossil Detectives

    Douglas Palmer & Hermione Cockburn

    Fossils provide us with a tantalizing glimpse of Britain's prehistoric past and hold the key to unlocking the secrets of life's history and evolution. Since the appearance of primi...

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    Connexity

    Geoff Mulgan

    CONNEXITY is the philosophical counterpart to Will Hutton's essentially political book. It looks at the profound tension that exists between two recent achievements of humanity...

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    Football Fever 3

    Tony Bradman

    Pep times his move with instinctive perfection. Suddenly, he's back on the ball, and the defenders realize (too late, because they're committed now) that he never really left: it ...

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    A Joosr Guide to... The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford

    Joosr

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    How to Teach Economics to Your Dog

    Rebecca Campbell & Anthony McGowan

    Monty is a dog, not a financial genius, but economics still shapes his everyday life.Over the course of seventeen walks, Dr Rebecca Campbell chews over economic concepts and invest...

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    Right Kind of Wrong

    Amy C. Edmondson

    Winner of the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2023 A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2023A revolutionary guide that will transform your relationship wi...

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    Two Children Behind A Wall

    Catherine Laylle

    In 1984, Catherine Laylle, a Frenchwomen living in London, met and married a German medical student, Dieter. The couple had two sons, Alexander and Constantin. When, however, at Di...

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    Expert

    Roger Kneebone

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    The Element in the Room

    Helen Arney & Steve Mould

    'Made me go Hydrogen Argon, Hydrogen Argon, Hydrogen Argon.' Rufus HoundAs featured in Best stockingfiller books of 2017 The Guardian'Witty and clever writing, every topic is enga...

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    Preventable

    Devi Sridhar

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER | BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKThe definitive story of COVID19 and how global politics shape our health from a worldleading expert and the pandemic's go...

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    A Brief Guide to Smart Thinking

    James M. Russell

    Each book is summarised to convey a brief idea of what each one has to offer the interested reader, while a 'Speed Read' for each book delivers a quick sense of what each book is l...

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    India Booms

    John Farndon

    The ancient birthplace of some of the world's major religions and now a modern nuclear power, India is experiencing spectacular economic growth. In twentyfive years its population ...

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    Reinvented Lives

    Charles Handy & Elizabeth Handy

    Twentyeight women, ranging from Anita Roddick and Prue Leith to less wellknown names, write their own personal stories which are accompanied by Elizabeth Handy's black and white ph...

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    Menstrual and Pre-Menstrual Tension

    Jan de Vries

    Research carried out over the past decade indicates that women are suffering more than ever from problems connected with menstrual and premenstrual tension. Many dread the monthly ...