Innovating for Growth with Tim Harford | 07.11.2011

Tim Harford is a senior columnist for the Financial Times. His column, "The Undercover Economist", reveals the economic ideas behind everyday experiences. He is also the only economist in the world to run a problem page, "Dear Economist", in which readers' personal problems are answered tongue-in-cheek with the latest economic theory. Drawing on his new book, Adapt this event will explore the question of how problems get solved in a complex world, and how we can nurture innovations that really matter.

Tim's first book, The Undercover Economist has sold one million copies worldwide in almost 30 languages. His second book, The Logic of Life, was published early in 2008 in English, and has also been widely translated, and his third book, Dear Undercover Economist is a collection of his "Dear Economist" columns.

He presented the BBC television series Trust Me, I'm an Economist and now presents the BBC radio series More or Less. He is a frequent contributor to other radio and TV programmes, including the Colbert Report, Marketplace, Morning Edition, Today, and Newsnight. He has been published by the leading magazines and newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic, including Esquire, Forbes, Wired, New York Magazine, the Guardian, the London Times, the Washington Post and the New York Times. In 2011 Tim was named one of the UK's top 20 most influential tweeters by The Independent newspaper. Tim also won the 2006 Bastiat Prize for economic journalism.

Tim has previously worked for Shell and the World Bank, and was a member of the Financial Times editorial board from 2006-2009. He is a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford and a senior visiting fellow at Cass Business School.

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