Books by Tim Harford
Found 12 books
That is the new book by Tim Harford , due out February 2.
The author is Tim Harford, and the subtitle is Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers . My copy just arrived and I am just about to leave town, but I thought I should give you notice.
That is the new Tim Harford book .
Here is an adaptation from the book on the history of barbed wire . Here is another BBC adaptation on why electricity did not change manufacturing more quickly. You can pre-order the book here .
Tim Harford, Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives .
As I’ve already written, it is Tim’s best and deepest book. Here is the book’s home page . You can order the book here , it is out today a messy day it must be.
The subtitle is The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives , and it is Tim’s best and deepest book. You’ll be hearing more about it in due time, the publication date is October 4, you can pre-order it here .
First there are the economics books, including books by people I know, including Piketty, The Second Machine Age , Tim Harford’s wonderful macro explainer , Megan McArdle’s The Up Side of Down , Lane Kenworthy on social democracy , The Fourth Revolution by John Micklethwait and Adrian Woolridge, Daniel Drezner The System Worked , and Frank Buckley on why the Canadian system of government is better . And Russ Roberts, How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and H...
From books “close at hand,” I very much liked John List and Uri Gneezy , Virginia Postrel on glamour , Lant Pritchett, The Rebirth of Education , and Tim Harford on macroeconomics .
1) Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O Hirschman , by Jeremy Adelman 2) The Undercover Economist Strikes Back , by Tim Harford 3) Giving Kids a Fair Chance , by James Heckman 4) How Asia Works , by Joe Studwell 5) America’s Assembly Line , by David Nye
The UK edition is out August 1st, the US edition is out in January 2014.
The bottom line: I was never reading this because it will be popular and I wanted to review it, I was always reading it to ponder the ideas. You can buy the book here .
Tim is probably the single best economist to follow on Twitter , arguably today’s best active popular economics writer , and now I have in my hands his new book Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure . Self-recommending! (If page one is good, should I worry about the rest of the book?)
Tim's new book is out this week and the subtitle is Priceless Advice on Money, Work, Sex, Kids, and Life's Other Challenges . The book is basically Tim's "Dear Economist" advice columns from the FT . It is priced at a very reasonable $10 and it reaffirms Tim's status as the #1 UK writer on popular economics.
1. Tim Harford's The Logic of Life , out in paperback Tuesday. Our MR book forum on it was here .
For commentary on chapter four from Tim Harford’s The Logic of Life , Megan McArdle steps up . The post is over at her blog, go over there to leave your opinions and show the Atlantic Monthly who’s got the better commentators!
Don’t forget to pre-order your copy of Tim Harford’s The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World . Alex and I will be starting our Book Forum soon, along with some prestigious guest reviewers, and Tim’s book will start appearing in book stores this Tuesday. Tim is one of the world’s best popular writers on economics, and we only select those books that we feel will yield maximally interesting book forums.
You may remember our very successful book forum on Greg Clark’s A Farewell to Alms . In short, we all read the book together and I offered running commentary on the contents. There was a special encouragement for reader comments, and Greg very graciously responded at length. Next Alex and I, along with some specially invited guest bloggers, will be doing Tim Harford’s new The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World . Tim’s book won’t be out until January 15, so of course...
Here is the full post , which also covers Tim Harford’s forthcoming The Logic of Life , which you’ll hear more about in due time (it carries a blurb and recommendation from yours truly).
Loyal MR readers already know about Tim, a regular columnist for The Financial Times and author of The Undercover Economist . Here is Tim’s blog , and here is Tim’s homepage .
Tim Harford , The Undercover Economist , reports: