Tim Harford

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Tim Harford is a British economist, journalist, and broadcaster who has become one of the world's most popular writers on economics, data, and human decision-making. Born in 1973, he studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Brasenose College, Oxford, and holds an MPhil in Economics from the same university. He is a senior columnist... at the Financial Times and has worked at the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation. Harford's bestselling books include The Undercover Economist, which made economics accessible and entertaining for millions of readers; Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure, which examines the power of trial and error; Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy; and The Data Detective. He presents the BBC Radio 4 programme More or Less, which examines the numbers behind the news, and the podcast Cautionary Tales, which draws lessons from historical disasters and near-misses. He was awarded an MBE for services to improving economic understanding and was named Communicator of the Year by the Royal Statistical Society. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers economics and statistics made genuinely fascinating through masterful storytelling, rigorous analysis, and an infectious curiosity about how the world actually works. Read more Show less