Tag Archives: Tim Harford
Tim Harford is a paperback writer.
US edition (paperback):
Tim Harford, The Logic Of Life
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UK edition (paperback):
Tim Harford, The Logic Of Life
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Tim Harford on office micro-geography (and Google’s enterprise prediction markets)
Tim Harford:
[...] We keep being told that because of cheap, ubiquitous communication technology, distance is dead. But if there was ever a company that we should expect to exemplify that idea, surely it was Google. This research suggests that it is as important as ever to be sitting in the right place.
Yes, but findings on [...]
The Logic Of Life — by Tim Harford
YouTube video
It’s too short!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Prediction Market Industry Association = useless, so far
We have witnessed a backlash against the prediction markets just after the Hew Hampshire fiasco. Some bloggers and journalists picked on the prediction markets (InTrade, that is), even though both the polls and the pundits were awfully wrong too. [*] Here are the persons who participated in the pro-PM side of the debate:- Robin Hanson [...]
The Undercover Economist
The Undercover Economist = Tim Harford’s blog — [ Tim Harford's LinkedIn profile ]
His blog feed (a.k.a. RSS): http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/rss.xml
I recommend Google Reader, as your feed reader.
Money-on-the-line forecasts tend to do better than cheap-talk forecasts, even if the cheap-talk is from an independent analyst.
Said Tim Harford, talking about real estate derivatives. Felix Salmon disagrees.
Terrorism Futures = Repugnant Market?
In discussing “Repugnant Markets” on BBC Radio, Tim Harford talks to Robin Hanson about the cancellation of the proposed Policy Analysis Market:
HANSON: So on Monday morning two senators you know denounced the project and the very next morning the Secretary of Defense announced the project was canceled. There [...]
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