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The Data Detective with Tim Harford Part One
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger - March 13, 2021 08:01 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsToday we think statistics are the enemy, numbers used to mislead and confuse us. Our guest this weekend, Tim Harford, says that's a mistake. In his latest book, The Data Detective, Harford says we shouldn’t be suspicious of statistics, we need to understand what they mean and how they can impro...
A powerful way to unleash your natural creativity | Tim Harford
TED Talks Daily - January 31, 2020 16:15 ★★★★ - 9.8K ratingsWhat can we learn from the world's most enduringly creative people? They "slow-motion multitask," actively juggling multiple projects and moving between topics as the mood strikes -- without feeling hurried. Author Tim Harford shares how innovators like Einstein, Darwin, Twyla Tharp and ...
Tim Harford: Slow-Motion Multitasking
Hurry Slowly - November 20, 2018 05:59 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 571 ratingsTim Harford on why your bad habits are good again. Procrastination, letting stuff pile up & slow-motion multitasking all have an upside.
Tim Harford on Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy
EconTalk - November 20, 2017 06:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4K ratingsFinancial Times columnist and author Tim Harford talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Harford's latest book, Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy. Highlights include how elevators are an important form of mass transit, why washing machines didn't save quite as much time as you'...
Episode #185: Tim Harford Returns to talk 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy
Future Squared with Steve Glaveski - Helping You Navigate a Brave New World - September 30, 2017 05:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsToday, we welcome to the show for a 3rd time, the one and only Tim Harford. Tim is an economist, author, TED speaker, journalist and broadcaster. He is author of “Messy” and the million-selling “The Undercover Economist”, a senior columnist at the Financial Times, and the presenter of Radio ...
Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy with Tim Harford
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger - September 28, 2017 07:01 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsHow many of you rode an elevator today? Or Googled something? Or use index funds in your financial lives? I’m going to guess all of you did at least one of those things. I’m also going to guess that you probably didn’t realize that those three things are among the 50 inventions that shaped the...
Episode #112: The Undercover Economist Returns! Part 2 with Tim Harford.
Future Squared with Steve Glaveski - Helping You Navigate a Brave New World - February 12, 2017 00:41 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsListen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Tim Harford returns to part 2 of our chat inspired by his new book Messy which explores the connection between chaos and creativity. Tim is an economist, journalist and broadcaster. He is author of “Mes...
Episode #104: The Undercover Economist, Tim Harford, talks Messy (part 1)
Future Squared with Steve Glaveski - Helping You Navigate a Brave New World - January 14, 2017 00:47 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 13 ratingsListen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Tim Harford is the author of the bestseller The Undercover Economist, Adapt and The Logic of Life and is a member of the editorial board of the Financial Times, where he also writes the “Dear Economist” colum...
Tim Harford on the Importance of Being Messy
Intelligence Squared - December 16, 2016 00:05 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 690 ratingsHave the forces of tidiness marched too far? Would we all benefit from being a bit messy? That’s the big question that the FT’s star economist Tim Harford will be asking in this exclusive Intelligence Squared event. In Harford’s view, we need to be tidy up to a point. But in some areas of life, t...
Tim Harford on the Virtues of Disorder and Messy
EconTalk - November 14, 2016 06:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4K ratingsTim Harford, journalist and author, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book, Messy. Harford argues that we have a weakness for order and neat solutions causing us to miss opportunities to find happiness or success with messier, more disorderly processes and solutions. Hartfor...
PPP 156 | The Messy Project Manager, with author Tim Harford
People and Projects Podcast: Project Management Podcast - November 09, 2016 03:30 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsWhat Good is a Mess? As a profession, project managers have a tendency toward the tidy. Would you agree? I'm not talking about tidy in terms of cleanliness. I'm talking about tidy in terms of organized. Buttoned up. In control. In this episode, Tim Harford joins us to argue for the value of ...
Trial, error, and economics: Tim Harford, Undercover Economist
Notebook on Cities and Culture - July 19, 2011 05:30 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsColin Marshall talks to Tim Harford, also known as the Undercover Economist. He wrote the book of the same name as well as The Logic of Life and now Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure. In this latest book, Harford examines the value of numerous small-scale experiments — numerous enoug...
Undercover economist Tim Harford
Notebook on Cities and Culture - March 15, 2008 20:42 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsA conversation about speed-dating, the advantages of city life and the fun economists are having with "Undercover Economist" Tim Harford, author of The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World.