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Tim Harford

Tim Harford writes the “Dear Economist” column for the Financial Times, in which readers' queries are answered, tongue-in-cheek, with the latest economic theory. His book, The Undercover Economist (Oxford University Press), is published in the United States on 1 November 2005. His website is at www.timharford.com.

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Thomas Schelling: games of enlightenment

From nuclear weapons to climate change, the Vietnam war to urban segregation, the prize-winning economist Thomas Schelling’s leaps of lateral thinking are weapons of enlightenment, says Tim Harford.

A new strategy for climate change

A market-based approach to pollution control pioneered in the United States suggests a way to overcome inadequacies in the European approach to climate change, and a model the whole world can join to the benefit of its poorest people.

The real curse of oil

Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria…oil is curse not blessing for developing nations. Its real impact is to intensify corruption, civil conflict, and political patronage. A solution requires practical cures not conspiracy theories. Iraq is the place to start.