Tim Harford is the author of nine books, including The Undercover Economist and How To Make The World Add Up, which was a Sunday Times number 1 Business Book Bestseller. Tim is the writer and presenter of the Cautionary Tales podcast, starring Helena Bonham Carter and Jeffrey Wright, which has already reached 10 million downloads. He is also the presenter of the BBC Radio shows More or Less, Fifty Things That Made The Modern Economy and How To Vaccinate The World – where his guests included Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates.
Tim’s TED talks have been viewed more than 11 million times and he has spoken at the Royal Institution and the Sydney Opera House. He is a member of Nuffield College, Oxford, an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and in 2019 was made an OBE “for services to improving economic understanding”.
Tim’s children are aged 16, 14 and 9.
Topic: Maths, Non-Fiction, PSHE & Citizenship, Politics
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The world is often full of bamboozling headlines and numbers that don’t add up. But don’t panic. Within these pages you will transform into a Truth Detective, hunting down the truth about the world around you.
A must read for curious kids from presenter of BBC Radio 4’s “More or Less”, Tim Harford and with wonderful illustrations to enjoy by Ollie Mann.
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Themes: Politics | Maths | News