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  • Friday, 20 April, 2018
    Undercover Economist Columnists
    The world is not as gloomy, or great, as you think

    Optimism and pessimism both have their merits, but we need a dose of realism

    Friday, 20 April, 2018
  • Friday, 13 April, 2018
    Undercover Economist Columnists
    We cannot rely on personal impressions alone

    There is a lot to be said for our own experience, but it has obvious limitations

    Friday, 13 April, 2018
  • Friday, 6 April, 2018
    Undercover Economist Decision-making
    Spending decisions that show our limitations

    Everything has a cost, whether we are making a political choice or a purchase

    Friday, 6 April, 2018
  • Friday, 30 March, 2018
    Undercover Economist Demographics and population
    A monetary remedy for the midlife crisis

    People’s life evaluations dip between their twenties and fifties, only to then improve

    Friday, 30 March, 2018
  • Friday, 23 March, 2018
    Undercover Economist Columnists
    Chaos has its limits even in Trump’s White House

    As the US president is learning, more ponderous forces may reassert themselves

    Friday, 23 March, 2018
  • Friday, 16 March, 2018
    Undercover Economist Columnists
    Hawking’s scientific curiosity pulled us all in

    The physicist, unlike so many experts, knew how to communicate difficult ideas

    Friday, 16 March, 2018
  • Friday, 9 March, 2018
    Undercover Economist Workplace diversity
    A simple fix to solve Hollywood’s diversity problem

    The inclusion rider is a clever nudge to bring more women and minorities to the screen

    Friday, 9 March, 2018
  • Friday, 2 March, 2018
    Undercover Economist Global politics
    How referendums break democracies

    Yes/No votes give the snake-oil peddlers an edge and hold nobody accountable

    Friday, 2 March, 2018
  • Friday, 23 February, 2018
    Undercover Economist Economic recovery
    Zombie companies walk among us

    But simply letting them go to the wall may not be the panacea it might seem

    Friday, 23 February, 2018
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  • Friday, 16 February, 2018
    Undercover Economist Corporate culture
    Oxfam, #MeToo and the psychology of outrage

    Our initial impressions are reinforced by others — and can be hijacked for political ends

    Friday, 16 February, 2018
  • Friday, 9 February, 2018
    Undercover Economist Markets volatility
    A sloth’s guide to surviving market volatility

    Investors should work to a long timescale rather than the frenetic fast-twitch world

    Friday, 9 February, 2018
  • Thursday, 8 February, 2018
    FT Magazine
    Tim Harford’s guide to statistics in a misleading age

    Dubious numbers and false claims fill our daily lives. Here’s how to decipher the barrage of statistical propaganda

    Thursday, 8 February, 2018
  • Friday, 2 February, 2018
    Undercover Economist Corporate culture
    Like great coffee, good ideas take time to percolate

    The status quo is comfortable, especially for the people who get to call the shots

    Friday, 2 February, 2018
  • Friday, 26 January, 2018
    Undercover Economist UK politics & policy
    The economics of happiness

    There may be more to life than cash, but should the pursuit of wellbeing guide policy?

    Friday, 26 January, 2018
  • Friday, 19 January, 2018
    Undercover Economist Columnists
    The case for ending Amazon’s dominance

    Antitrust authorities should not be making life easy for incumbents

    Friday, 19 January, 2018
  • Friday, 12 January, 2018
    Undercover Economist Market bubbles
    The lesson for diagnosing a bubble

    It is easy to laugh at past follies exaggerated for comic or sermonising effect

    Friday, 12 January, 2018
  • Friday, 22 December, 2017
    Undercover Economist Work-life balance
    The route to salvation lies in your inbox

    ‘Slow email’ software works where your willpower does not

    Friday, 22 December, 2017
  • Friday, 15 December, 2017
    Undercover Economist Consumer trends
    The economist’s guide to Christmas

    My three-point plan for a more efficient holiday season

    Friday, 15 December, 2017
  • Friday, 8 December, 2017
    Undercover Economist Brexit
    The Brexit monomania built on blind faith

    Golding’s ‘The Spire’ offers eerie parallels with Britain’s withdrawal from the EU

    Friday, 8 December, 2017
  • Friday, 1 December, 2017
    Undercover Economist Big Data
    Why algorithms must not be left to run the economy

    Market forces are more powerful than any computer

    Friday, 1 December, 2017
  • Friday, 24 November, 2017
    Undercover Economist Science
    Economicky words are just plain icky

    Practitioners seem to be drawn to polysyllabic obfuscation like wasps to jam

    Friday, 24 November, 2017
  • Friday, 17 November, 2017
    Undercover Economist Artificial intelligence and robotics
    Why the robot boost is yet to arrive

    The benefits of technologies such as self-driving cars will reveal themselves in time

    Friday, 17 November, 2017
  • Friday, 10 November, 2017
    Undercover Economist Social Media
    Nudging can also be used for dark purposes

    The path of least resistance can easily direct people to do the wrong thing

    Friday, 10 November, 2017
  • Friday, 3 November, 2017
    Undercover Economist Opinion
    A way to poke Facebook off its uncontested perch

    It is not easy to see how a social media competitor could tempt us to migrate together

    Friday, 3 November, 2017
  • Friday, 27 October, 2017
    Undercover Economist Artificial intelligence and robotics
    How business is losing the innovation game

    Corporate laboratories once bankrolled basic fundamental research of the highest importance

    Friday, 27 October, 2017
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