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Barnet council has been experimenting with the concept of prototyping, which embodies Harford's argument of trying lots of things, failing quickly at low cost, iterating and learning.
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According to Tim Harford's book, the average tariff is 2.9% -- i.e., practically nothing.
Do Voters' Biases Bias Policy?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Tim Harford's new book, Adapt, provides a coherent argument for systematic experimentation, failure and learning as both the source of history's great technological leaps forward and the key to future prosperity.
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Today we are discussing Tim Harford's chapter on cities, called "The World is Spiky".
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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In my critique of Harford's chapter on statistical discrimination, I wrote:But is it really true that the market fails to reward blacks for getting more education?
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In fact, on the surface, it looks like the two most popular new books in the genre this year, Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational and Tim Harford's The Logic of Life, have a pretty basic disagreement.
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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Harford's shares were at $23.78, down 0.7%, in after-hours trading.
Hartford Taps Swift as New Finance Chief Kathy Shwiff 2010
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Ariely, says his book jacket, "refutes the common assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways," while Harford's book jacket replies, "Under the surface of everyday insanity, life is logical after all."
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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That's a fine disagreement to begin with, but from reading both books, you can tell the sides would not remain so simply divided (despite the doctored fight photo above that Ariely sent in when we proposed the idea -- Ariely's in the red trunks and Harford's in the green, white and red).
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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Harford's keyhole solution: health savings accounts and catastrophic insurance, a la Singapore.
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