Tim Harford

Tim Harford (born 1973) 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.

In October 2007, Harford replaced Andrew Dilnot on the BBC Radio 4 series "More or Less".

Books by Tim Harford

* "The Market for Aid" (2005) with Michael Klein
* "The Undercover Economist" (2006)
* "The Logic of Life" (2008)

External links

* [http://www.timharford.com/ Tim Harford's personal webpage] with [http://www.timharford.com/feed/ RSS Feed]
* [http://www.ft.com/comment/columnists/timharford Harford's column at the Financial Times] with [http://www.ft.com/rss/comment/columnists/timharford RSS Feed]
* He was a founder of [http://psdblog.worldbank.org/ PSD Blog - The World Bank Group's Private Sector Development Blog]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5260120.stm All is fair in love and war and poker - details of the first episode of "Trust me, I'm an economist" (BBC)]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/more_or_less/default.stm More or Less BBC website]
* [http://www.slate.com/?id=3944&cp=2134391 Columns at Slate]
* [http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/ Blog at the FT, which began October 2007]
* [http://colinmarshall.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=317790 An interview with Tim Harford on "The Marketplace of Ideas"]