Presenter: Tim Harford Producers: Lizzy McNeill, Nathan Gower, Katie Solleveld and Charlotte McDonald Series producer: Tom ...

In 1942, eight men are sent from Nazi Germany to infiltrate America. Their mission: to sabotage critical infrastructure. Their problem: they’re idiots. Operation Pastorius soon devolves into ...

Madeleine Sumption, Director of the Migration Observatory at Oxford University Lukas Lehner, Assistant Professor at the ...

Financial Times and Slate.com columnist Harford (The Undercover Economist) provides an entertaining and provocative look at the logic behind the seemingly irrational ...

In the 1630s, Adriaen Pauw was the closest thing Holland had to a prime minister; he was also fabulously wealthy. To display his wealth and good taste, Pauw commissioned a tulip garden filled with ...

Professor Jennifer Dowd, deputy director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Tim Harford is an Author with five videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2005 Forum as a Columnist for Economics in the Financial Times. The year with ...

Stuart McDonald, Head of Longevity and Demographic Insights at the consultancy Lane Clark & Peacock (LCP) Ben Zaranko, Associate Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies ...

For higher ed readers, Tim Harford’s The Data Detective arrives at an interesting time. We are all motivated to make data-driven decisions around how our institutions should respond to the evolving ...

The plow -- I: Winners and losers: The gramophone ; Barbed wire ; Seller feedback ; Google search ; Passports ; Robots ; The welfare state -- II: Reinventing how we ...

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