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Tim Harford
Finance & Economics
Tim Harford is an English economic journalist and author whose newspaper columns, radio work and podcasts explore economics, statistics and everyday experiences.
Biography
Timothy Douglas Harford is an English economic journalist who lives in Oxford. He is the author of four economics books and writes The Undercover Economist, a long-running Financial Times column syndicated in Slate. The column examines the economic ideas behind everyday experiences. His other Financial Times column, Since You Asked, offered a sceptical perspective on the week's news between 2011 and 2014.
Harford has presented the BBC Radio 4 programme More or Less since October 2007, with segments also available as podcasts. He later launched Cautionary Tales on the Pushkin Industries podcast network. In Messy, he draws on neuroscience, psychology and social science research to examine the benefits of disorder and the limitations of tidiness.
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Books by Tim Harford
Messy
Messy draws on neuroscience, psychology and social science research to explore how disorder, confusion and disarray can support innovation, achievement and human connection. It argues that a preference for tidiness can conceal fragility that inhibits innovation.