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词条 Tim Harford
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  1. Education

  2. Career

  3. Awards

  4. Publications

  5. References

  6. External links

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}}Timothy Douglas Harford {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|OBE}} (born 1973) is an English economist and journalist who lives in Oxford.[3] He is the author of four economics books[2][4][5][6] and writes his long-running Financial Times column, "The Undercover Economist", syndicated in Slate magazine, which reveals the economic ideas behind everyday experiences. His column in the Financial Times, "Since you asked", ran between 2011 and 2014 and offered a skeptical look at the news of the week.[7]

Education

Harford was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School and then at Brasenose College, Oxford. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics[1] and later a Master of Philosophy in economics, in 1998.[8]

Career

Harford 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 he rejoined the Financial Times, as economics leader writer, in April 2006. He is also a member of the newspaper's editorial board.

Tim has spoken at TED, PopTech and the Sydney Opera House. He is a visiting fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.[9]

In August 2007, he presented a television series on the BBC, Trust me, I'm an economist.[10]

In October 2007, Harford replaced Andrew Dilnot on the BBC Radio 4 series More or Less. He is a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford.[11]

From November 2016 he presented an economic history documentary radio and podcast series 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy

Awards

  • More or Less won the Royal Statistical Society's 2010 award for statistical excellence in broadcast journalism.[12] In 2017 Harford was made an Honorary Fellow of the society.[13]
  • More or Less won Mensa's award for promoting intelligence in public life.[14]
  • Harford was awarded the Bastiat Prize for economic journalism in 2007 (shared with Jamie Whyte).[15] In 2010 he again drew with Whyte, in second place.
  • He was awarded the OBE in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to Improving Economic Understanding [16]

Publications

  • The Market for Aid (2005) with Michael Klein, {{ISBN|978-0-8213-6229-7}}
  • The Undercover Economist (2005), {{ISBN|978-0-345-49401-6}}
  • The Logic of Life (2008), {{ISBN|978-0-8129-7787-5}}
  • Dear Undercover Economist: Priceless Advice on Money, Work, Sex, Kids, and Life's Other Challenges (2009). New York, Random House. 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-8129-8010-3}}
  • Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure (2011). New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. {{ISBN|978-0-374-10096-4}}
  • The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run—or Ruin—an Economy (2014). Penguin Riverhead Books (USA). {{ISBN|978-1594631405}}
  • Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives (2016). Riverhead Books. {{ISBN|978-1594634796}}
  • Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy (2017). Little, Brown. {{ISBN|978-1408709115}}

References

1. ^1 {{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/passedfailed-an-education-in-the-life-of-tim-harford-writer-and-economist-410282.html |title=Passed/Failed: An education in the life of Tim Harford, writer and economist |location=London |work=The Independent |first=Jonathan |last=Sale |date=3 August 2006}}
2. ^1 {{cite book |author=Tim Harford |title=The Undercover Economist |publisher=Little, Brown Book Group |location= |year=2007 |pages= |isbn=0-349-11985-6 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=}}
3. ^{{cite web|title=Tim Harford - The Undercover Economist - Biography|url=http://timharford.com/etc/biography/|website=Tim Harford - The Undercover Economist|accessdate=2 December 2017}}
4. ^{{cite book |author=Tim Harford |title=Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure. Tim Harford |publisher=Abacus Software |location= |year=2012 |pages= |isbn=0-349-12151-6 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=}}
5. ^{{cite book |author1=Tim Harford |author2=Klein, Michael |title=The market for aid |publisher=International Finance Corporation |location=Washington, D.C |year=2005 |pages= |isbn=0-8213-6228-3 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=}}
6. ^{{cite book |author=Tim Harford |title=The Logic of Life: The Undercover Economist |publisher=Abacus |location=London |year=2009 |pages= |isbn=0-349-12041-2 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=}}
7. ^{{Cite web|url=http://timharford.com/articles/sya/|title=Since You Asked|last=|first=|date=|website=Tim Harford|access-date=5 October 2017}}
8. ^1 {{cite thesis |degree=MPhil |first=Tim |last=Harford |title=Sequential auctions with financially constrained bidders |publisher=University of Oxford |date=1998 |url=http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?docId=oxfaleph013697676}}
9. ^{{Cite news|url=http://timharford.com/etc/biography/|title=Biography|last=Chiappella|first=Wolf|date=2007-11-17|work=Tim Harford|access-date=2017-11-30|language=en-US}}
10. ^{{cite web |last=Oxlade |first=Andrew |title=How to be economic with money |url=http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-1601479/How-to-be-economic-with-money.html |publisher=This is money |accessdate=12 February 2014}}
11. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/People/sites/Tim.Harford/SitePages/Biography.aspx |title=Mr Tim Harford, Visiting Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford |format= |work= |archivedate=1 May 2013 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6GHi0EmLb?url=http://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/People/sites/Tim.Harford/SitePages/Biography.aspx |deadurl=yes |df=dmy-all }}
12. ^Royal Statistical Society awards {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110821182651/http://membership.rss.org.uk/main.asp?page=2838 |date=21 August 2011 }} Accessed 5 June 2010
13. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.statslife.org.uk/news/3204-rss-announces-honours-for-2017 |title=RSS announces honours for 2017 |work=News |publisher=Royal Statistical Society |date=2017-02-21 |accessdate=2017-03-09 }}
14. ^More or Less Honoured {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100529200919/http://www.mensa.org.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=1363&d=23&h=5&f=3 |date=29 May 2010 }} Accessed 5 June 2010
15. ^Fifth Annual Bastiat Prize awarded jointly to Tim Harford and Jamie Whyte {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127230053/http://policynetwork.net/bastiat-prize/media/fifth-annual-bastiat-prize-journalism-awarded-jointly-tim-harford-and-jamie-whyt |date=27 November 2010 }} Accessed 5 June 2010
16. ^{{cite web |url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/768288/NY19_Queens_List_31_December_2018.pdf |title=New Year Honours list 2019 |publisher=UK Government |date=2018-12-31 |accessdate=2019-02-12}}

External links

  • Harford's column at the Financial Times with RSS Feed
  • All is fair in love and war and poker – details of the first episode of "Trust me, I'm an economist" (BBC)
  • Blog at the FT, which began October 2007
  • Video (and audio) of interview of Tim Harford by Will Wilkinson on Bloggingheads.tv
  • {{TED speaker}}
  • An interview with Tim Harford about The Logic of Life on The Marketplace of Ideas
  • {{cite web |last=Roberts |first=Russ |title=Harford on Adapt and the Virtues of Failure |url=http://www.econtalk.org/archives/_featuring/tim_harford/ |work=EconTalk |publisher=Library of Economics and Liberty |authorlink=Russ Roberts |date=23 May 2011}}
  • A series of short film commentaries by Tim Harford on the work of past Nobel Laureates in economics, as part of the Nobel Perspectives project
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