Tim Harford

For the Australian economist and government advisor, see Tim Harcourt.

Tim Harford
OBE FSS
Born
Timothy Douglas Harford

(1973-09-27) 27 September 1973 (age 51)[1][2]
Kent[3]
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
EducationAylesbury Grammar School
Alma materUniversity of Oxford[4]
Employer(s)BBC
Financial Times
International Finance Corporation
Known for
AwardsBastiat Prize (2007)
Websitetimharford.com Edit this at Wikidata

Timothy Douglas Harford OBE FSS (born 27 September 1973) is an English economic journalist who lives in Oxford.[6][7][8][9][10] Harford is the author of four economics books[5][9][11] 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.[12]

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.[13][14]

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  2. ^ on 27th of September 1973. [clarification needed]
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  4. ^ Sale, Jonathan (3 August 2006). "Passed/Failed: An education in the life of Tim Harford, writer and economist". independent.co.uk. London: The Independent. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022.
  5. ^ a b Tim Harford (2007). The Undercover Economist. Little, Brown Book Group. ISBN 978-0-349-11985-4.
  6. ^ "Tim Harford - The Undercover Economist - Biography". Tim Harford - The Undercover Economist. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  7. ^ Video (and audio) of interview of Tim Harford by Will Wilkinson on Bloggingheads.tv
  8. ^ An interview with Tim Harford about The Logic of Life on The Marketplace of Ideas
  9. ^ a b Roberts, Russ (23 May 2011). "Harford on Adapt and the Virtues of Failure". EconTalk. Library of Economics and Liberty.
  10. ^ 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
  11. ^ Tim Harford (2009). The Logic of Life: The Undercover Economist. London: Abacus. ISBN 978-0-349-12041-6.
  12. ^ "Since You Asked". Tim Harford. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  13. ^ "iHeartMedia and Pushkin Industries Announce Major New Sales and Production Partnership". iHeartMedia. 9 November 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
  14. ^ "Cautionary Tales". Tim Harford - Podcasts. Retrieved 17 April 2021.