Tim Harford

"The Undercover Economist", Financial Times columnist, presenter of More or Less on BBC Radio, creator of the Cautionary Tales podcast, and author of "The Data Detective". 

The Undercover Economist Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy
Tim Harford

My books

Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks
The Numbers Game: The Commonsense Guide to Understanding Numbers in the News, in Politics, and in L Ife
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Thinking, Fast and Slow
How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion Meltdown: What Plane Crashes, Oil Spills, and Dumb Business Decisions Can Teach Us about How to Succeed at Work and at Home The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - And Why
Tim Harford

Cautionary Tales

How Music Works Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900
Tim Harford

Inventions that shaped the modern economy

What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
How Music Works
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Get It Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation
The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid
Vaxxers: The Inside Story of the Oxford Astrazeneca Vaccine and the Race Against the Virus
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread--And Why They Stop
Catch Your Breath
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else
How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business Get It Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation
Tim Harford

Self-help books that actually help