简介：An archive of Tim Harford's writing for the Financial Times and elsewhere, and information about his books.

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累计：546 篇（自 2007-09-04 起）

更新：约2篇/周，最后更新109 天前

Tim Harford

Malthus’s ghost and baby number 7bn

“in five days, world population is projected to reach 7 billion.” – un population fund, october 26there will be 7bn of us come halloween? you’re kidding.someone at the unpfa has a sense of humour, it seems. this is a terrifying prospect to some and cheery for others, while most of us find it irrelevant. halloween seems appropriate.this is a stat... (109 天前)

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Tim Harford

Can you be a little less specific?

game theorists are beginning to produce rational models of deliberate vaguenessseinfeld’s george costanza was once invited “up for coffee” at the end of a romantic evening, and refused: caffeine would keep him awake, he explained to his perplexed date. later, aghast, he realised: “coffee doesn’t mean coffee! coffee means sex!”well, indeed – but... (111 天前)

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Tim Harford

Why we should all trim our antlers

robert frank’s ‘the darwin economy’ argues that there are markets in which we would be better off if we agree to throttle backin a hundred years, if professional economists are polled to identify the founder of their discipline, the majority will name charles darwin, rather than adam smith as they would today.”this prediction, made in a recent spe... (117 天前)

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Tim Harford

Wolfson’s prize is impossible to win

“lord wolfson, a prominent eurosceptic?.?.?.?is offering ￡250,000 to the person who comes up with the best plan for winding up the euro in an orderly way. the wolfson economics prize?.?.?.?will be the second-largest cash prize for an academic economics after the nobel prize.” – financial times, october 19cheap at the price.very cheap. the european... (117 天前)

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Tim Harford

Innovation works in mysterious ways

‘i’m surrounded by technology that looks good and works well because others followed where apple led’was it salesmanship or engineering? creativity or ruthlessness? or was steve jobs simply gifted with vision and impeccable taste? whatever the true source of his success, there was more than a touch of genius about jobs. even his side project, pixar,... (124 天前)

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Tim Harford

Debt crisis? Let’s just call it quits

we keep hearing about a eurozone debt crisis. but who owes the money? and to whom?the simple answer is that a lot of people owe a lot of money to a lot of other people and it’s all rather messy and difficult.if we all owe the debt to each other, can’t we just wipe the slate clean?if you owed ￡100 ($158) to me and i owed ￡100 to you, we could agre... (124 天前)

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Tim Harford

Mr Prime Minister, we like our credit cards

“the prime minister was forced to change a passage in his original speech which appeared to call on people to pay off their debts instead of spending money.”what’s wrong with telling people to pay off their credit cards?nothing. paying off your credit card is a marvellous idea. credit cards are magnificently expensive if you start letting the balan... (131 天前)

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