Who makes most money from the demand for cappuccinos early in the morning at Waterloo Station? Why is it impossible to get a foot on the property ladder? How does the Mafia make money from laundries when street gangs pushing drugs don't? Who really benefits from immigration? How can China, in just fifty years, go from the world's worst famine to one of the greatest economic revolutions of all time, lifting a million people out of poverty a month? Looking at familiar situations in unfamiliar ways, THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST is a fresh explanation of the fundamental principles of the modern economy, illuminated by examples from the streets of London to the booming skyscrapers of Shanghai to the sleepy canals of Bruges. Leaving behind textbook jargon and equations, Tim Harford will reveal the games of signals and negotiations, contests of strength and battles of wit that drive not only the economy at large but the everyday choices we make.

The Undercover Economist

A million readers bought The Undercover Economist to get the lowdown on how economics works on a small scale, in our everyday lives. Since then, economics has become big news. Crises, austerity, riots, bonuses - all are in the headlines all the time. But how does this large-scale economic world really work? What would happen if we cancelled everyone's debt? How do you create a job? Will the BRIC countries take over the world? Asking - among many other things -- what the future holds for the Euro, why the banks are still paying record bonuses and where government borrowing will take us, in The Undercover Economist Strikes Back, Tim Harford returns with his trademark clarity and wit to explain what's really going on - and what it means for us all.

The Undercover Economist Strikes Back

Everything we know about solving the world's problems is wrong. Out: Plans, experts and above all, leaders. In: Adapting - improvise rather than plan; fail, learn, and try again In this groundbreaking new book, Tim Harford shows how the world's most complex and important problems - including terrorism, climate change, poverty, innovation, and the financial crisis - can only be solved from the bottom up by rapid experimenting and adapting. From a spaceport in the Mojave Desert to the street battles of Iraq, from a blazing offshore drilling rig to everyday decisions in our business and personal lives, this is a handbook for surviving - and prospering - in our complex and ever-shifting world.

Adapt

Based on the series produced for the BBC World Service A Financial Times and Bloomberg Business Week Book of the Year Who thought up paper money? How did the contraceptive pill change the face of the legal profession? Why was the horse collar as important for human progress as the steam engine? How did the humble spreadsheet turn the world of finance upside-down? The world economy defies comprehension. A continuously-changing system of immense complexity, it offers over ten billion distinct products and services, doubles in size every fifteen years, and links almost every one of the planet's seven billion people. It delivers astonishing luxury to hundreds of millions. It also leaves hundreds of millions behind, puts tremendous strains on the ecosystem, and has an alarming habit of stalling. Nobody is in charge of it. Indeed, no individual understands more than a fraction of what's going on. How can we make sense of this bewildering system on which our lives depend? From the tally-stick to Bitcoin, the canal lock to the jumbo jet, each invention in Tim Harford's fascinating new book has its own curious, surprising and memorable story, a vignette against a grand backdrop. Step by step, readers will start to understand where we are, how we got here, and where we might be going next. Hidden connections will be laid bare: how the barcode undermined family corner shops; why the gramophone widened inequality; how barbed wire shaped America. We'll meet the characters who developed some of these inventions, profited from them, or were ruined by them. We'll trace the economic principles that help to explain their transformative effects. And we'll ask what lessons we can learn to make wise use of future inventions, in a world where the pace of innovation will only accelerate.

Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy

The urge to tidiness seems to be rooted deep in the human psyche. Many of us feel threatened by anything that is vague, unplanned, scattered around or hard to describe. We find comfort in having a script to rely on, a system to follow, in being able to categorise and file away. We all benefit from tidy organisation - up to a point. A large library needs a reference system. Global trade needs the shipping container. Scientific collaboration needs measurement units. But the forces of tidiness have marched too far. Corporate middle managers and government bureaucrats have long tended to insist that everything must have a label, a number and a logical place in a logical system. Now that they are armed with computers and serial numbers, there is little to hold this tidy-mindedness in check. It's even spilling into our personal lives, as we corral our children into sanitised play areas or entrust our quest for love to the soulless algorithms of dating websites. Order is imposed when chaos would be more productive. Or if not chaos, then . . . messiness. The trouble with tidiness is that, in excess, it becomes rigid, fragile and sterile. In Messy, Tim Harford reveals how qualities we value more than ever - responsiveness, resilience and creativity - simply cannot be disentangled from the messy soil that produces them. This, then, is a book about the benefits of being messy: messy in our private lives; messy in the office, with piles of paper on the desk and unread spreadsheets; messy in the recording studio, the laboratory or in preparing for an important presentation; and messy in our approach to business, politics and economics, leaving things vague, diverse and uncomfortably made-up-on-the-spot. It's time to rediscover the benefits of a little mess.

Messy

We worden om de oren geslagen met getallen. Percentages, prijzen, grafieken, coëfficiënten - ze vergezellen ronkende kopteksten, duiken op in gesprekken van alledag, en tieren welig op sociale media. Maar wat vertellen zij ons? Aan de hand van tien simpele vuistregels tracht topeconoom Tim Harford onze datafobie te genezen. Als we de wereld willen begrijpen, komen we namelijk niet ver zonder statistiek. Met empathie en humor loodst dit boek ons langs de vooroordelen die ons gezond verstand teisteren. Het demonstreert wat we kunnen leren van onder andere een meestervervalser, de tabakslobby en de ontstaansgeschiedenis van Viagra.

Cijfers kunnen de wereld redden

All five series of Simon Evans’ BBC Radio 4 show explaining economics through comedy How do you make money funny? How do you put the comedy in commodity? In this BBC radio show, Simon Evans sets himself the challenge of making economics entertaining through comedic lectures, with the help of special guests including investment gurus, financial journalists and economists. In Series 1 and 2, he examines the chequered social and economic histories of eight important commodities: land, gold, oil, grain, alcohol, tobacco, coffee and sugar. By looking at these fundamental products, Simon brings us to a closer understanding of how global economic forces have a far-reaching and often surprising impact on our lives. Series 3 sees him exploring four of the stages that mark our journey through life – youth, marriage, birth and death – and how economics is part of every one of those stages, whether we like it or not. In Series 4, Simon looks at the concept of the ‘free lunch’ and shines a light on new ways of making money in the 21st Century, from social media and multinationals that appear to be operating tax-free to philanthropy and the cost of health. Finally, in Series 5, he points his jokenomics lens at the competing theories of Macro Economics and the ‘Big Beards’ who devised them – Adam Smith, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes – and reflects on how they shape our world today, and how they can help us out of our current economic predicament. Among his regular guests are Financial Times columnist and presenter of Radio 4’s More Or Less, Tim Harford; Timandra Harkness, author of Big Data: Does Size Matter?; and the Queen of investment know-how, editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek Merryn Somerset Webb. Produced by Tilusha Ghelani (Series 1), Claire Jones (Series 2 and 3), Richard Morris (Series 4 and 5)

Simon Evans Goes to Market: The Complete Series 1-5

Immaginate un genio della comicità all'inglese che incontra la statistica: da qui nasce questo libro, un'intrigante prospettiva su dati, cifre, certezze e manipolazioni, una mole di informazioni spesso veicolate dalla politica e poi diffuse dai giornali, come è stato per il Coronavirus. Perché dietro l'apparente enigmaticità dei numeri si nasconde un'indubbia bellezza, ma soprattutto la chiave per decifrare il mondo, apprezzarlo e raccontarlo. Senza dimenticare che in tutto ciò c'è anche da divertirsi.

Dare i numeri

Há uma certa magia na bagunça. Apesar do nosso ímpeto de lidar com um mundo ordenado, sistematizado, planejado e cuidadosamente estruturado em categorias, é importante se agarrar à bagunça. Ela nos dá aquele cutucão que pode incitar a criatividade, nutrir a resiliência e extrair o melhor de cada um de nós. Muitas vezes sucumbimos à tentação de uma abordagem voltada para a arrumação, quando na verdade estaríamos melhor adotando um certo grau de desordem. Como o escritor que é, por um feliz acaso, inspirado por uma distração qualquer. Muitas vezes, as metas quantificadas criam incentivos perversos; os trabalhadores no escritório organizado se sentem indefesos e desmotivados ou um intruso desestabilizador irrita a equipe, mas traz um insight novo em folha. Apoiado às mais recentes pesquisas em neurociência, psicologia e ciência social – com exemplos cativantes de pessoas bem-sucedidas que fizeram coisas extraordinárias – Tim Harford nos prova que as qualidades que nós valorizamos são, na verdade, produzidas pela desordem, pela confusão e pelo desarranjo das coisas. "É um livro muito, muito bom, cheio de sábias contraintuições e insights inteligentes." Brian Eno "Um livro carismático. Poucos escritores são mais qualificados para defender a desordem e a particularidade." The Times "Uma galopada profundamente estimulante pelos motivos que deveriam permitir a todos nós termos um pouco de bagunça – mas não caos – nas nossas vidas, nas nossas mesas de trabalho e nas nossas mentes. Uma poderosa expansão da excelente obra anterior de Harford, de um ponto de vista fascinante e contrastante." David Halpern "Percorrendo com habilidade os negócios, a política e a arte, Tim Harford faz uma defesa convincente dos benefícios criativos da desorganização, da improvisação e da confusão. Sua mensagem libertadora é: você terá mais sucesso se parar de se debater tanto para planejar ou controlar o seu sucesso. Messy é uma aventura, fruto de profunda pesquisa, infinitamente esclarecedora sobre a magia transformadora de deixar as coisas desarrumadas." Oliver Burkeman

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