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About 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.

Articles by Tim Harford

Thursday 13th October

Thomas Schelling: games of enlightenment

Tim Harford, 13 October 2005
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.
Monday 23rd May

A new strategy for climate change

Tim Harford, 23 May 2005
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.
Wednesday 15th October

The real curse of oil

Tim Harford, 15 October 2003
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.
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