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  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    FT MagazineTim Harford
    What nudge theory got wrong

    Is behavioural public policy a distraction from finding systemic solutions?

  • Monday, 27 December, 2021
    Ravi Gurumurthy
    Covid has demonstrated the power of the ‘nudge’

    Policies on everything from public health to climate change would benefit from using behavioural science

  • Monday, 20 December, 2021
    FT Swamp Notes
    The best and the brightest Premium content

    When done properly, systems thinking can help us solve the world’s most complex problems

  • Monday, 13 December, 2021
    UK government to boost investment in ‘nudge unit’ by selling stake

    Behavioural Insights Team will attract £100m in funding to direct its messaging at Britain’s big social challenges

  • Wednesday, 17 November, 2021
    FT MagazineGillian Tett
    Can guilt help bankers change for the better?

    Research suggests that ‘guilt-prone individuals’ may have a ‘moral advantage’ in workplaces and that banks should try to hire them

  • Monday, 11 October, 2021
    Nobel prizes
    Three economists share Nobel Prize for pioneering ‘natural experiments’

    Trio challenged ideas, including work to show that raising the minimum wage need not depress jobs

  • Friday, 8 October, 2021
    John Gapper
    Everyone wants to catch billionaire lottery fever

    Prize draws with jackpots worth hundreds of millions are democratic financial fantasies

  • Wednesday, 22 September, 2021
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    Lack of abortion access will set US women back, economists warn

    Wages and education significantly affected, brief says, as Supreme Court considers latest challenge to Roe vs Wade

  • Monday, 30 August, 2021
    Lex
    Game theory: collaborative kids beat the marshmallow test Premium content

    Most people want to co-operate, even when it is not individually optimal

  • Thursday, 26 August, 2021
    FT Magazine
    Treat brain: how the pandemic is rewiring our minds

    The comfort-seeking behaviours of Covid may be here to stay. Is that such a bad thing?

  • Friday, 11 June, 2021
    Undercover EconomistTim Harford
    Mr Spock is not as logical as he’d like to think

    ‘The Vulcan is a dramatic portrayal of the mistakes economists make in assuming everyone is rational’

  • Friday, 4 June, 2021
    Undercover EconomistTim Harford
    Some gripes about groupthink

    ‘While dissent leads to better decisions, it also leads to discomfort. Disagreement is valuable but agreement feels so much more comfortable’

  • Friday, 4 December, 2020
    Undercover EconomistTim Harford
    What puzzles and poker teach us about misinformation

    We cannot escape our emotions — but we can take them into account

  • Friday, 6 November, 2020
    Tim Harford
    Why pollsters so often seem to get it wrong

    The huge win suggested for Joe Biden did not materialise — but we shouldn’t expect certainty

  • Friday, 11 September, 2020
    Tim Harford
    How quick and dirty Covid tests can help end the weariness

    A mass programme is needed because we cannot wait for an effective vaccine

  • Friday, 4 September, 2020
    Undercover EconomistTim Harford
    Live events are back, but new rules make for thin performances

    Lockdowns called for ingenuity to meet the challenge of staging in a post-Covid world

  • Friday, 21 August, 2020
    Camilla Cavendish
    Adult children are straining the generosity of parents

    Demands for extended support are growing, but an Italian judge has put her foot down

  • Friday, 14 August, 2020
    Tim Harford
    We won’t remember much of what we did in the pandemic

    There is good reason that we have such vivid memories of our holidays

  • Friday, 24 July, 2020
    Undercover EconomistTim Harford
    We fall in love with the new but not everything old is obsolete

    Cutting edge technology can blind us to the enduring value of workhorses like the 747

  • Friday, 17 July, 2020
    Tim Harford
    Self-fulfilling prophecies can be harnessed for good

    But some predictions are false, no matter how much we wish they were true

  • Thursday, 9 July, 2020
    Chris Giles
    Fast economic data is like fast food — tempting but bad for you

    Rapid data forged UK pandemic policies, but we must know its weaknesses while marvelling at its speed

  • Friday, 26 June, 2020
    Undercover EconomistTim Harford
    The risk of harm and the greater good

    Randomised trials can be a danger but even when innocuous they can make us uneasy. Why?

  • Friday, 19 June, 2020
    Undercover EconomistTim Harford
    What countries can — and can’t — learn from each other

    The lack of co-ordination on the response to Covid-19 has cost lives

  • Friday, 5 June, 2020
    Undercover EconomistTim Harford
    The economy won’t snap back after Covid-19

    Activities that were already marginal are likely to struggle to return

  • Friday, 29 May, 2020
    Undercover EconomistTim Harford
    The case for libertarian lockdowns — ‘don’t be a dickhead’

    Laws cannot cover every situation but common sense is not always enough

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