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Tim Harford’s Adapt: How to fund research so that it generates insanely great ideas, not pretty good ones.
Tim Harford
May 16, 2011
7:17 PM
Tim Harford’s Adapt: What the RAF’s World War II Spitfire can teach us about nurturing innovation and radical ideas.
Tim Harford
May 15, 2011
9:18 PM
Michael Lewis and Tim Harford play a game of Saint Petersburg.
Tim Harford
Feb 06, 2011
7:15 AM
Behavioral economics under attack.
Tim Harford
Jan 30, 2011
7:00 AM
What industrial safety can teach us about preventing financial meltdowns.
Tim Harford
Jan 16, 2011
7:09 AM
C’mon, you can do better than a gift card.
Tim Harford
Nov 24, 2009
4:49 PM
Why the NFL should replace the overtime coin toss with an auction system.
Tim Harford
Jan 29, 2009
6:49 AM
Why not start the weekend on Wednesday?
Tim Harford
Dec 27, 2008
7:37 AM
Unemployment benefits do encourage joblessness. But that may not be a bad thing.
Tim Harford
Dec 12, 2008
6:36 PM
Why it’s so hard to predict how bad the recession will be.
Tim Harford
Nov 28, 2008
7:08 AM
Why 20-year-olds should invest way more in the stock market, and 50-year-olds, way less.
Tim Harford
Nov 15, 2008
7:41 AM
What can “neuroeconomics” teach us about how we think about money?
Tim Harford
Nov 01, 2008
7:55 AM
Why it’s so hard to get away with blackmail.
Tim Harford
Oct 18, 2008
6:15 AM
Americans should stop complaining about the “moral hazard” problem and enjoy the bailout.
Tim Harford
Oct 03, 2008
6:13 PM
Why it’s dangerous to be a witch in a recession.
Tim Harford
Sept 20, 2008
7:11 AM
An economics mystery—why houses cost more in summer—has finally been solved.
Tim Harford
Sept 05, 2008
6:51 PM
An amazing economics experiment and how it got field workers to pick a lot more fruit.
Tim Harford
Aug 23, 2008
12:02 AM
Why are economic forecasters so wrong, so often?
Tim Harford
Aug 09, 2008
6:44 AM
Finally, a sensible way to measure poverty.
Tim Harford
July 26, 2008
7:25 AM
Stop blaming speculators for high oil prices.
Tim Harford
July 12, 2008
7:27 AM