Tim Worstall

Tim Worstall (b. 1963, Torquay) is an English writer and , who writes about a variety of topics, but particularly about economics. In his day job, he works as a consultant and dealer in scandium and other exotic metals.cite web | title=The Low Hanging Fruit Company ( BVI ) Limited | url=http://timworstall.typepad.com/lhfc/ | accessdate=2006-09-03 ] He occasionally and humorously refers to himself in his blog and articles as a member of the "international scandium oligopoly."

Worstall has written a blog since April 2004.cite news | last=Worstall | first=Tim | title=Why I pull columns apart | work=Press Gazette | date=2006-06-01 | url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=34323] The blog received approximately one million visits in the year to August 2006. It had a world-wide readership in that period, though most of the visits came from the United States and Europe.cite web | title=ClustrMaps+ World Map for http://timworstall.typepad.com | work=ClustrMaps | url=http://clustrmaps.com/counter/maps.php?url=http://timworstall.typepad.com | accessdate=2006-08-19]

Two of Worstall's articles about the 7 July 2005 London bombings have been archived by the UK Web Archiving Consortium.cite web | title=Tim Worstall | work=UK Web Archiving Consortium | url=http://www.webarchive.org.uk/tep/12274.html | accessdate=2006-08-19]

Worstall has written regularly for the online magazine "TCS Daily" since May 2004.cite web | title=Tim Worstall | work=TCS Daily | url=http://www.tcsdaily.com/Authors.aspx?id=760 | accessdate=2006-08-19] In a 23 June 2005 article, he coined Worstall's Law of Organizations: "All and any organizations will in the end be run by those who stay awake in committee." cite news | last = Worstall | first = Tim | title = 'Any organization will, in the end, be run by those who stay awake in committee' | work = TCS Daily | date = 2005-06-23 | url = http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=062405D]

In November 2005, Worstall compiled the book "2005 Blogged: Dispatches from the Blogosphere", an anthology of blogging.cite book | last=Worstall | first=Tim | title=2005 Blogged: Dispatches from the blogosphere | publisher=The Friday Project Limited | location=London | date=2005 | id=ISBN 0-9548318-3-7]

Since September 2006, Worstall has been a contributor to "The Philadelphia Inquirer"'s "Editorials & Commentary" pagecite news | last=Worstall | first=Tim | title=Looking at world through shape of a 'J' | work=The Philadelphia Inquirer | date=2006-09-03 | url=http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/15426647.htm]

He lives in Portugal with his wife.

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Further reading

* [http://timworstall.com/ Tim Worstall's blog]
* [http://www.tcsdaily.com/Authors.aspx?id=760 "TCS Daily" articles] —a current list of articles by Worstall for "TCS Daily"