Tim Harford
Autore di L' economista mascherato : l'insospettabile logica che fa muovere i soldi
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
Dear Undercover Economist: Priceless Advice on Money, Work, Sex, Kids, and Life's Other Challenges (2009) 158 copie
Trial, Error and the God Complex 1 copia
Tim Harford 2 Books Collection Set (The Undercover Economist & Fifty Things That Made The Modern Economy) (2020) 1 copia
Opere correlate
How to vaccinate the world [2020-2021 radio programme] — Host — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Harford, Timothy Douglas
- Data di nascita
- 1973-09-27
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Kent, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England, UK
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK - Istruzione
- University of Oxford (BA|MA|1998 - Brasenose College)
Aylesbury Grammar School - Attività lavorative
- economist
journalist
editor - Relazioni
- Monks, Fran (wife)
- Organizzazioni
- Financial Times
International Finance Corporation
BBC Radio
Shell
World Bank - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (2019)
Royal Statistical Society (honorary fellow, 2017)
Bastiat Prize (2007)
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Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 15
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 6,587
- Popolarità
- #3,719
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 164
- ISBN
- 175
- Lingue
- 17
- Preferito da
- 9
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)