Tim Harford – Russ Roberts

Tim Harford is an author and economist. Russ Roberts is an interview host. We found 3 podcast interviews connecting Tim Harford and Russ Roberts.

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Episodes with Tim Harford & Russ Roberts

Russ Roberts & Tim Harford 20 Nov 2017 • EN

Tim Harford on Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy

Financial Times columnist and author Tim Harford talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Harford's latest book, Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy. Highlights include how elevators are an important form of mass transit, why washing machines didn't save quite as much time as you'd think, and the gloriou

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Russ Roberts & Tim Harford 14 Nov 2016 • EN

Tim Harford on the Virtues of Disorder and Messy

Tim Harford, journalist and author, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book, Messy. Harford argues that we have a weakness for order and neat solutions causing us to miss opportunities to find happiness or success with messier, more disorderly processes and solutions. Hartford looks at a wide range

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Russ Roberts & Tim Harford 23 May 2011 • EN

Tim Harford on Adapt and the Virtues of Failure

Tim Harford, author and journalist, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Adapt, Harford's book on the virtues of failure and the trial and error process. Harford argues that success is more likely when there is experimentation and trial and error followed by adapting, rather than following a top-down, ex ante pl

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