Tim Harford

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Tim Harford
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Born
Timothy Douglas Harford

(1973-09-27) 27 September 1973 (age 50) [1] [2]
Kent [3]
Citizenship United Kingdom
Education Aylesbury Grammar School
Alma mater University of Oxford [4]
Employer(s) BBC
Financial Times
International Finance Corporation
Known for
Awards Bastiat Prize (2007)
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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]

Contents

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]

Education

Harford was born in Kent. [3] He was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School and at Brasenose College, Oxford, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) [4] and then a Master of Philosophy in Economics, in 1998. [1] Harford said that he originally planned to drop economics when studying towards his undergraduate degree but that his economics tutor Peter Sinclair convinced him otherwise. [15]

Career

Harford joined the Financial Times in 2003 on a fellowship in commemoration of business columnist Peter Martin. [16] [17] 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.[ citation needed ]

Tim has spoken at TED, [18] PopTech[ citation needed ] and the Sydney Opera House.[ citation needed ] He is a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (FSS). [3] [19] [20]

In August 2007, he presented a television series on the BBC, Trust Me, I'm an Economist. [21] [22] 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. [23]

Harford is managed by the agency Knight Ayton. [24]

Awards

Publications

Personal life

Harford lives in Oxford with his wife Fran Monks, a photographer, and their three children. [24]

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References

  1. 1 2 Harford, Tim (1998). Sequential auctions with financially constrained bidders. ox.ac.uk (MPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC   43261224.
  2. ↑ on 27th of September 1973. [ clarification needed ]
  3. 1 2 3 Anon (2024). "Harford, Timothy D." . Who's Who (176th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 2736. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U289383. ISBN   9781399409452. OCLC   1402257203.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. 1 2 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. 1 2 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. 1 2 3 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. 1 2 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.
  15. ↑ Bowers, John (16 February 2021). "Principal's Blog: 16th February 2021". Brasenose College, Oxford . Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  16. ↑ Blog at the FT, which began October 2007
  17. ↑ Harford's column at the Financial Times with RSS Feed
  18. ↑ Tim Harford at TED OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  19. ↑ "Mr Tim Harford, Visiting Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford". Archived from the original on 29 January 2015.
  20. ↑ Chiappella, Wolf (17 November 2007). "Biography". Tim Harford. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  21. ↑ All is fair in love and war and poker – details of the first episode of "Trust me, I'm an economist" (BBC)
  22. ↑ "Trust Me, I'm an Economist". Tim Harford. 5 August 2006. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
  23. ↑ "How to vaccinate the world". Archived from the original on 25 November 2020.
  24. 1 2 "Tim Harford OBE - Knight Ayton". knightayton.co.uk.
  25. ↑ Royal Statistical Society awards Archived 21 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 5 June 2010
  26. ↑ "RSS announces honours for 2017". Royal Statistical Society. 21 February 2017. Archived from the original on 4 August 2020. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  27. ↑ More or Less Honoured Archived 29 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 5 June 2010
  28. ↑ Fifth Annual Bastiat Prize awarded jointly to Tim Harford and Jamie Whyte Archived 27 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 5 June 2010
  29. ↑ "New Year Honours list 2019" (PDF). UK Government. 31 December 2018. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
  30. ↑ The Market for Aid (2005) with Michael Klein, ISBN   978-0-8213-6229-7
  31. ↑ The Undercover Economist (2005), ISBN   978-0-345-49401-6
  32. ↑ 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
  33. ↑ 'The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run –or Ruin –an Economy (2014). Penguin Riverhead Books (US). ISBN   978-1594631405
  34. ↑ Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives (2016). Riverhead Books. ISBN   978-1594634796
  35. ↑ 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy (2017). Little, Brown. ISBN   978-1408709115
  36. ↑ The Next Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy (2020). The Bridge Street Press. ISBN   978-1408712665
  37. ↑ The Next Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy (2020). Little, Brown. ISBN   978-1408712245
  38. ↑ The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics (2021). Riverhead Books. ISBN   978-0593084595
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