Tim Harford on the Logic of Life

This book can be found at Amazon.com. Tim Harford is an English economist and journalist, residing in London. He is the author of two economics books, presenter of BBC television series Trust Me, I’m an Economist, and writer of a humorous weekly column called “Dear Economist” for The Financial Times, in which he uses economic theory to attempt to solve readers’ personal problems. His other FT column, “The Undercover Economist”, is syndicated in Slate magazine.

Harford studied at the University of Oxford, gaining a BA and then an MPhil in Economics in 1998. He 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.¹

Here’s the 7-part discussion…

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Harford [↩]

Birthday Presents

I got some of the coolest birthday presents this week.

Basic Economics: A Citizens Guide to the Economy
by Thomas Sowell¹

More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics
by Steven E. Landsburg²

Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don’t
by John Lott Jr.³

The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
by Thomas Friedman⁴

1. http://www.tsowell.com [↩]
2. http://www.landsburg.com/ [↩]
3. http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/ [↩]
4. http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/ [↩]