Hints and tips:
...You don’t have to take the precise numbers seriously to be struck by the contrast....
...The Autumn Statement did nothing to relieve what Tim Harford describes as the doom loop of deteriorating public services....
...Women aren’t going back into the workforce at the same rate they did before the pandemic, she notes, putting the US very much at odds with the rest of the rich world....
...My colleagues Tim Harford and Gillian Tett have eloquently set out the case for a global carbon price....
...That is odd — I re-read it this week and it doesn’t seem mistaken at all....
...Tim Harford asks, what is the point if all the costs and benefits being analysed are flights of fantasy?...
...As I write there are now a large number of boarded up shops on Princes Street and George Street in Edinburgh....
...China’s currency jumped the most in four-and-a-half years as trading resumed after a long holiday, boosted by the country’s accelerating economic recovery and rising odds of a Joe Biden presidency in the...
...Tim Harford FT COLUMNIST Maria Konnikova gave up academic psychology to become a writer, and it was a good choice: her storytelling is beautiful....
...Love or hate them, considering uncomfortable trade-offs is what economists do, Tim Harford writes....
...Tim Harford is the author of “The Undercover Economist Strikes Back”. Twitter: @TimHarford Illustration by Harry Haysom...
...Tim Harford is author of ‘The Undercover Economist Strikes Back’ Twitter: @TimHarford Illustration by: Harry Haysom...
...Such tests ask subjects to pour out multiple answers to odd questions....
...Tim Harford is the author of ‘The Undercover Economist Strikes Back’....
...Mr Harford ignores some striking features of the Fairtrade system....
...Tim Harford’s ‘Undercover Economist’ column appears each week at ft.com/harford ——————————————- Letter in response to this article: No match for marketing nudges towards bad choices / From Dr David F...
...Freakonomics taught us (among other things) that sumo wrestlers cheat, teachers rig exams and drug dealers are penniless mummy’s boys....
...tim.harford@ft.com...
...‘The Undercover Economist Strikes Back’, by Tim Harford, is published by Little, Brown...
...Tim Harford’s new book, “The Undercover Economist Strikes Back”, is published by Little, Brown...
...“The Undercover Economist Strikes Back”, by Tim Harford, is published by Little, Brown...
...Born Elinor Awan in Los Angeles in 1933, by the time she first saw Garrett Hardin present his ideas she had already beaten the odds....
...What struck me most forcefully in the profile of Jack Ma, Financial Times person of the year, was not the Alibaba founder’s youth, his love of martial arts, or his against-the-odds subjugation of eBay, once...
...Tim Harford is the presenter of Radio 4’s ‘More or Less’...
...“Some of his stuff goes on and on, trying to use numbers to prove stuff that I don’t think can be proved by numbers alone,” its executive editor said in June....
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