Tim Harford
| Tim Harford | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
1973 (age 42–43) |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | Brasenose College, Oxford[2] |
| Employer | |
| Known for |
"The Undercover Economist"[3] More or Less |
| Awards | Bastiat Prize |
| Website |
TimHarford |
Tim Harford (born 1973) is an English economist and journalist who lives in London.[4] He is the author of four economics books[3][5][6][7] and writes his longrunning Financial Times column, "The Undercover Economist", syndicated in Slate magazine, which reveals the economic ideas behind everyday experiences. His new column, "Since you asked", offers a sceptical look at the news of the week.
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 [2] and later a Master of Philosophy in economics, in 1998.[1]
Career
Harford joined the Financial Times in 2003 on a fellowship in commemoration of the business columnist Peter Martin. He continued to write his column after joining the International Finance Corporation in 2004, and he rejoined the Financial Times, as economics leader writer, in April 2006. He is also a member of the newspaper's editorial board.
In August 2007, he presented a television series on the BBC, Trust me, I'm an economist.[8]
In October 2007, Harford replaced Andrew Dilnot on the BBC Radio 4 series More or Less. He is a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford.[9]
Awards
- More or Less won the Royal Statistical Society's 2010 award for statistical excellence in broadcast journalism.[10]
- More or Less won Mensa's award for promoting intelligence in public life.[11]
- Harford was awarded the Bastiat Prize for economic journalism in 2007 (shared with Jamie Whyte).[12] In 2010 he again drew with Whyte, in second place.
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 (USA). ISBN 978-1594631405
References
- 1 2 Harford, Tim (1998). Sequential auctions with financially constrained bidders (MPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
- 1 2 Sale, Jonathan (3 August 2006). "Passed/Failed: An education in the life of Tim Harford, writer and economist". The Independent. London.
- 1 2 Tim Harford (2007). The Undercover Economist. Little, Brown Book Group. ISBN 0-349-11985-6.
- ↑ Harford, Tim. "The random side of riots". Retrieved 4 August 2012.
- ↑ Tim Harford (2012). Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure. Tim Harford. Abacus Software. ISBN 0-349-12151-6.
- ↑ Tim Harford; Klein, Michael (2005). The market for aid. Washington, D.C: International Finance Corporation. ISBN 0-8213-6228-3.
- ↑ Tim Harford (2009). The Logic of Life: The Undercover Economist. London: Abacus. ISBN 0-349-12041-2.
- ↑ Oxlade, Andrew. "How to be economic with money". This is money. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
- ↑ "Mr Tim Harford, Visiting Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford". Archived from the original on 1 May 2013.
- ↑ Royal Statistical Society awards Accessed 5 June 2010
- ↑ More or Less Honoured Accessed 5 June 2010
- ↑ Fifth Annual Bastiat Prize awarded jointly to Tim Harford and Jamie Whyte Accessed 5 June 2010
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
- Tim Harford at Goodreads
- 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