Tim Harford, author portrait
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Tim Harford

Tim Harford is an award-winning journalist, economist, and broadcaster. He's the author of the bestselling The Undercover EconomistThe Undercover Economist Strikes Back, Messy, Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy, Adapt, and The Logic of Life. Harford is currently a senior columnist at the Financial Times and host of the BBC Radio 4 program More or Less. He has been named Economics Commentator of the Year (2014), won the Rybczynski Prize (2014–2015) for the best business-relevant economics writing, and won the Bastiat Prize for economic journalism (2006). He's a visiting fellow of Nuffield College at the University of Oxford and lives in Oxford with his family.
The Data Detective
Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy
Messy
The Undercover Economist Strikes Back
Dear Undercover Economist
The Logic of Life
The Undercover Economist

Books

The Data Detective
Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy
Messy
The Undercover Economist Strikes Back
Dear Undercover Economist
The Logic of Life
The Undercover Economist

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