Tim Harford

Not to be confused with Tim Harcourt.

Tim Harford
File:Tim Harford in 2012.jpg
Born	1973 (age 50–51)
Citizenship	UK
Alma mater	Brasenose College, Oxford
Employer	BBC Financial Times International Finance Corporation
Known for	The Undercover Economist More or Less (radio programme)
Awards	Bastiat Prize
Website	TimHarford.com twitter.com/TimHarford

Tim Harford (born 1973) is an English economist and journalist, residing in London. He is the author of four economics books 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.

Education

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) and then a Master of Philosophy degree in Economics in 1998.

Career

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 August 2007, he presented a television series on the BBC entitled Trust me, I'm an economist.

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.

Awards

• More or Less won the Royal Statistical Society's 2010 award for statistical excellence in broadcast journalism
• More or Less won Mensa's award for promoting intelligence in public life
• Harford was awarded the Bastiat Prize for economic journalism in 2007 (shared with Jamie Whyte) In 2010 he again drew with Whyte, in second place.

Publications

• The Market for Aid (2005) with Michael Klein, ISBN 978-0-8213-6229-7
• The Undercover Economist (2005), ISBN 978-0-345-49401-6
• The Logic of Life (2008), ISBN 978-0-8129-7787-5
• 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
• Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure (2011). New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-10096-4
• The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run—or Ruin—an Economy (2014). Penguin Riverhead Books (USA). ISBN 978-1594631405

External links

• 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
• Tim Harford at TED
  • "Trial, error and the God complex" (TEDGlobal 2011)
• 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