To tweet or not to tweet?
Economist Justin Wolfers runs a controlled experiment to test how Twitter is affecting his productivity I don’t normally hold with the traditional New Year’s resolution of quitting some objectionable habit – even though my favourite economist, Thomas Schelling, has written very thoughtfully on the subject. (Schelling, a brilliant game theorist and long-time smoker, used a variety of game theoretic
Dubious data cut down to size
A doctoral student found that national income is correlated with the average length of the erect penis in a country There’s no doubting the smash-hit economics research paper of the summer. It is “Male Organ and Economic Growth: Does Size Matter?”, a working paper written by Tatu Westling, a doctoral student at the University of Helsinki. Let’s get the conclusions of the article over with first, b
Keynes vs Hayek Round 2
I know a lot of you have been waiting for this – the “Fight of the Century” between Keynes and Hayek, and congratulations to John Papola and Russ Roberts for transforming the way economics is communicated: Personally I prefer the first video, “Fear the Boom and Bust”: Funnier, and the Hayekian sympathies of its creators are conveyed with a bit more subtlety. Nevertheless the world of economics com
Tim Harford
Tim is an economist, journalist and broadcaster. He is author of “The Next Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy”, “Messy”, and the million-selling “The Undercover Economist”. Tim is a senior columnist at the Financial Times, and the presenter of Radio 4’s “More or Less”, the iTunes-topping series “Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy”, and the new podcast “Cautionary Tales”. Tim has spok
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Five steps to an organised inbox
Look out for No. 1
Laffer curves and the logic of the 50p rate
In defence of PowerPoint
No, statistics are not silly, but their users . . .
Adapt
Is it time to outsource cities?
Superfreakonomics reviewed
http://timharford.com/2009/08/supermarkets-%E2%80%93-in-for-a-penny-or-a-pound/
Tim Harford — Article — How unusual is my husband’s porn habit?
How much do we want to pay?
Why Not Start Your Weekend on Wednesday?