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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 toon meer Society, and in 2019 he was awarded an OBE for services to improving economic understanding. toon minder
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Werken van Tim Harford
De economische detective waarom sommigen rijk zijn en anderen arm - en waarom je nooit een goede tweedehands auto kunt… (2006) 3,401 exemplaren, 59 besprekingen
The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics (2020) 488 exemplaren, 15 besprekingen
The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run or Ruin an Economy (2013) 267 exemplaren, 14 besprekingen
Dear Undercover Economist: Priceless Advice on Money, Work, Sex, Kids, and Life's Other Challenges (2009) 159 exemplaren, 5 besprekingen
Trial, Error and the God Complex 1 exemplaar
Tim Harford 2 Books Collection Set (The Undercover Economist & Fifty Things That Made The Modern Economy) (2020) 1 exemplaar
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- Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (2019)
Royal Statistical Society (honorary fellow, 2017)
Bastiat Prize (2007)
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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.… (meer)