Dear Undercover Economist Paperback by Tim Harford

Product Details

• Publisher: Anchor Canada (2009-08-25)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 240 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780385667432
• Item Weight: 226.8 grams
• Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.2 x 0.65 cm

A fantastic collection of witty, insightful, and often outrageous Financial Times columns that answer readers’ personal dilemmas using the latest economic theory.

Tim Harford employs his idiosyncratic style to explain economic principles so that anyone can understand them—and reveals how they apply to (and can solve) issues in everyday life. Does money buy happiness? Is “the one” really out there? Can cities be greener than farms? When’s the best time to settle down? Can you really “dress for success”? How can I stop my girlfriend from eating my dessert? Harford provides brilliant, hilarious, and weirdly wise answers to these and other questions. Arranged by topic, easy to read, and hard to put down, Dear Undercover Economist is a provocative, compassionate, and indispensable perspective on anything that may irk or ail you—a book well worth the investment.

About the Author

TIM HARFORD OBE is an economist, journalist, broadcaster, and the bestselling author of several books, including The Undercover Economist, The Logic of Life, The Undercover Economist Strikes Back, and Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy. He is a senior columnist for the Financial Times, where he writes the “Undercover Economist” column, and the presenter of BBC Radio's More or Less, How to Vaccinate the World, and Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy. Harford has been an economist at the World Bank and is an associate member of Nuffield College at Oxford University. He lives in London with his wife and two daughters.