Economist Tim Harford weaves together economic ideas with some remarkable personal histories, telling short stories about fascinating people in front of a live audience in some unusual locations. Tim Harford is also presenter of Radio's More or Less: Behind the Stats download.
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Wed, 13 Feb 13
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14 mins
Episode 5. The story of Chris Ferguson who applied game theory to poker and won. Big time. But, as Ferguson would find out, there's always a bigger game.
Wed, 6 Feb 13
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14 mins
Episode 4. Tim Harford tells the story of Bill Phillips - war hero, engineer, crocodile-hunter, and one of the fathers of macroeconomics.
Wed, 30 Jan 13
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14 mins
Episode 3. Tim Harford tells the story of Thomas Schelling, an economist who helped America and the Soviet Union to avoid nuclear war.
Wed, 23 Jan 13
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14 mins
Episode 2. The story of Al Roth, who worked out how to create a clearing-house for kidneys.
Wed, 16 Jan 13
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14 mins
Tim Harford weaves together economic ideas with remarkable personal histories in some unusual locations. The presenter of Radio 4's More or Less speaks to an audience from a shop window on London's Regent Street, and turns his attention to heated pants and the business of innovation. He tells the moving story of Mario Capecchi, whose struggle to get funding for his experiments tells us much about where new ideas come from, and how to foster them.
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