Tim Harford
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| Born | 1973 (age 39–40)[1] |
| Residence | Oxford |
| Citizenship | UK |
| Alma mater | Brasenose College, Oxford[2] |
| Employer | BBC Financial Times International Finance Corporation |
| Known for | The Undercover Economist[3] More or Less (radio programme) |
| Awards | Bastiat Prize |
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| www.timharford.com twitter.com/TimHarford |
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Tim Harford (born 1973) is an English economist and journalist, residing in London.[4] He is the author of four economics books[3][5][6][7] and writes his long-running Financial Times column, "The Undercover Economist", which is syndicated in Slate magazine, revealing the economic ideas behind everyday experiences. His new column, "Since You Asked," offers a sceptical look at the news of the week.
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Education [edit]
Harford was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School and then at Brasenose College, Oxford, gaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE)[2] and then an Master of Philosophy degree in Economics in 1998.[1]
Career [edit]
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 re-joined the Financial Times as economics leader writer in April 2006. He is also a member of the newspaper's editorial board.
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.[8]
Awards [edit]
- More or Less won the Royal Statistical Society's 2010 award for statistical excellence in broadcast journalism[9]
- More or Less won Mensa's award for promoting intelligence in public life[10]
- Harford was awarded the Bastiat Prize for economic journalism in 2007 (shared with Jamie Whyte)[11] In 2010 he again drew with Whyte, in second place.
References [edit]
- ^ a b Harford, Tim (1998). Sequential auctions with financially constrained bidders (MPhil thesis). University of Oxford. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?docId=oxfaleph013697676.
- ^ a b "Passed/Failed: An education in the life of Tim Harford, writer and economist".
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ "Mr Tim Harford, Visiting Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford". Archived from the original on 2013-05-01.
- ^ Royal Statistical Society awards Accessed June 5, 2010
- ^ More or Less Honoured Accessed June 5, 2010
- ^ Fifth Annual Bastiat Prize awarded jointly to Tim Harford and Jamie Whyte Accessed June 5, 2010
External links [edit]
- Harford's column at the Financial Times with RSS Feed
- He was a founder of PSD Blog - The World Bank Group's Private Sector Development Blog
- All is fair in love and war and poker - details of the first episode of "Trust me, I'm an economist" (BBC)
- More or Less BBC website
- Columns at Slate
- Blog at the FT, which began October 2007
- Video (and audio) of interview of Tim Harford by Will Wilkinson on Bloggingheads.tv
- TED TALKS Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex
- An interview with Tim Harford about The Logic of Life on The Marketplace of Ideas
- An interview with Tim Harford about Adapt on The Marketplace of Ideas
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