Tim Harford
- Auteur
Tim Harford is a senior columnist for the Financial Times and the presenter of Radio 4’s More or Less. He was the winner of the Bastiat Prize for economic journalism in 2006, and More or Less was commended for excellence in journalism by the Royal Statistical Society in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Harford lives in Oxford with his wife and three children, and is a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. His other books include The Undercover Economist, The Logic of Life and Adapt.
Tim Harford is a senior columnist for the Financial Times and the presenter of Radio 4’s More or Less. He was the winner of the Bastiat Prize for economic journalism in 2006, and More or Less was commended for excellence in journalism by the Royal Statistical Society in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Harford lives in Oxford with his wife and three children, and is a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. His other books include The Undercover Economist, The Logic of Life and Adapt.
Boeken van Tim Harford
Tim Harford
Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy
Based on the series produced for the BBC World Service
Who thought up paper money? How did the contraceptive pill change the face of the legal profession? Meer
Who thought up paper money? How did the contraceptive pill change the face of the legal profession? Meer
Tim Harford
Adapt
Everything we know about solving the world's problems is wrong.
Out: Plans, experts and above all, leaders.
In: Adapting - improvise rather than plan; fail, learn, and try again
In this groundbreaking new book, Tim Harford shows how the world's most complex and important problems - including terrorism, climate change, poverty, innovation, and the financial crisis - can only be solved from the bottom up by rapid experimenting and adapting. Meer
Out: Plans, experts and above all, leaders.
In: Adapting - improvise rather than plan; fail, learn, and try again
In this groundbreaking new book, Tim Harford shows how the world's most complex and important problems - including terrorism, climate change, poverty, innovation, and the financial crisis - can only be solved from the bottom up by rapid experimenting and adapting. Meer
Tim Harford
The Next Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy
'Endlessly insightful and full of surprises - exactly what you would expect from Tim Harford'
BILL BRYSON
'Entertaining . Meer
BILL BRYSON
'Entertaining . Meer
Tim Harford
The Truth Detective
***'A book that all children should read' - Matthew Syed***
-> Did you know that a toy spaceship can teach you about inflation? Meer
-> Did you know that a toy spaceship can teach you about inflation? Meer
Interviews en artikelen (1)
interview
Tim Harford: ‘Ik probeer iets onverwachts te vinden, een patroon dat mensen niet eerder hebben gezien’
Hans van der Klis | 19 augustus 2008
De Engelse econoom en journalist Tim Harford werd bekend door zijn Lieve Lita-rubriek ‘Dear Economist’ in The Financial Times waar hij over alledaagse vraagstukken adviseert met behulp van economische theorieën. Zijn voorliefde voor triviale onderwerpen komt ook naar voren in zijn tweede boek, getiteld Waarom we doen wat we doen. Aan de hand van analyses van uiteenlopende onderwerpen als het pijpgedrag van jonge Amerikaanse meisjes, het gewelddadige gettoleven en de hoge beloningen voor topmanagers laat hij zien dat ons gedrag altijd rationeel verklaard kan worden, ook al denken wij op het eerste gezicht van niet.