![]() ![]() Tim was made an OBE for services to improving economic understanding in the New Year honours of 2019. ![]() ![]() He is an associate member of Nuffield College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. Tim has spoken at TED, PopTech and the Sydney Opera House. Tim is a senior columnist at the Financial Times, and the presenter of Radio 4’s “More or Less”, the iTunes-topping series “Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy”, and the podcast “Cautionary Tales”. He is author of “How To Make the World Add Up” / “The Data Detective”, “Messy”, and the million-selling “The Undercover Economist”. Tim is an economist, journalist and broadcaster. The Data Detective by Tim Harford: 9780593084663 : Books From one of the great (greatest) contemporary popular writers on economics (Tyler Cowen) comes a smart, lively, and encouraging rethinking. ![]() Harford discusses Covid-19, how we view the world wrongly, global inequality, and problems with data quality. Already a bestseller in the UK, the book uses new research in science and psychology to set out ten strategies for using statistics to erase our biases and replace them with new ideas that use virtues like patience, curiosity, and good sense to better understand ourselves and the world. Join Tim Harford and Amanda Glassman as they discuss Harford’s new book, The Data Detective. Amanda Glassman, Executive Vice President and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development.Tim Harford, Author, The Data Detective. ![]()
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