EconTalk Podcast Episodes featuring Tim Harford

Tim Harford on Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy

EconTalk - November 20, 2017 06:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4K ratings
Financial 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'...

Tim Harford on the Virtues of Disorder and Messy

EconTalk - November 14, 2016 06:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4K ratings
Tim 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...