Immagine dell'autore.
15+ opere 6,587 membri 164 recensioni 9 preferito

Sull'Autore

Tim Harford is an award-winning columnist, broadcaster, and economist. He is the author of Messy, Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy, and the million-selling The Undercover Economist, and is the host of the .Cautionary Tales podcast. He is an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical mostra altro Society, and in 2019 he was awarded an OBE for services to improving economic understanding. mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Photo by Fran Monks

Opere di Tim Harford

Opere correlate

Etichette

Informazioni generali

Utenti

Recensioni

I am adding Tim Harford to my list of do-not-go-to authors (along with Adam Grant, sometimes Malcolm Gladwell, and a few others) who publish nonsensical pseudo-science about trivial subjects. "Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives" is one of the worst books I've read lately.

What are publishers thinking of when they publish such drivel?

Reading this book felt like I was going through somebody's box of index cards on stuff he picked up in popular magazines or Malcolm Gladwell books. There is no original science here. There is no flow from one paragraph to another. In fact, there is no connection between the sub-title and what'a actually in this book.

Instead, you get a series of anecdotes about people who might have been smart, lucky?, disorganised? who did something remarkable. And then a few more stories to excoriate organisations that tried to (perhaps I should whisper it) ... organise stuff?

Should I be worried that my desk is clean? Does that make me pathological?

Maybe anarchy is to be embraced.

Who is this book written for? Office managers?

One thing we know for sure about Harford: he hasn't done any research himself on messiness.
… (altro)
 
Segnalato
MylesKesten | 14 altre recensioni | Jan 23, 2024 |
Fun and very readable book that applies the methods of economics to diverse subjects (gambling, dating, racial preferences, whether to live in a city, colonization of the New World, archaeology, etc etc).
 
Segnalato
yaj70 | 23 altre recensioni | Jan 22, 2024 |
A decent and readable overview of large-scale economics, that helped explain why a little inflation (but not a lot) was desirable, why printing money is good sometimes and bad other times, why some people believe in stimulus and others believe in austerity, and why governments often screw this up.
 
Segnalato
yaj70 | 15 altre recensioni | Jan 22, 2024 |
В последние годы держится мода на «микроистории» вещей, изменивших мир. Интересные и полные неожиданных нюансов, они тем не менее часто оставляют после себя ощущение, что автор хватил лишку. Носки, конечно, вещь нужная, но так, чтобы они кардинально изменили ход истории? Вряд ли. Тиму Харфорду, автору колонки Undercover Economist в Financial Times и нескольких хороших книг об экономике окружающей нас повседневности, похоже, удалось избежать близорукости и мозаичности. Все пятьдесят отобранных изобретений, от плуга до криптовалюты, не висят в вакууме, а связаны в единую ткань новых возможностей как с последующими, так и с предыдущими. А чтобы было интереснее, Харфорд оставил за бортом несколько уже поднадоевших хитов рейтингов вроде компьютера и колеса. Помимо конкретных вещей (колючая проволока, таблетки от зачатия, «телеужин», iPhone) это и концепции (консалтинг, право собственности, государство всеобщего благосостояния, банки), и технологии (радар, процесс Габера, на который и сейчас уходит 1% всей вырабатываемой энергии). Злоключения изобретателей и инициаторов — отдельный большой бонус.… (altro)
 
Segnalato
Den85 | 10 altre recensioni | Jan 3, 2024 |

Liste

Premi e riconoscimenti

Potrebbero anche piacerti

Autori correlati

Statistiche

Opere
15
Opere correlate
1
Utenti
6,587
Popolarità
#3,719
Voto
½ 3.7
Recensioni
164
ISBN
175
Lingue
17
Preferito da
9

Grafici & Tabelle