The Undercover Economist by Harford Tim

The Undercover Economist is a book published by Tim Harford and aims at settling certain issues in the minds of people, pertaining to the field of economics.

Summary Of The Book

The Undercover Economist provides the readers with an in-depth, yet simple explanation concerning the economy in this modern day world.

The author explains the key concepts of economics by using several examples for the novice reader, that are easy to comprehend. Some of the examples used by the author include the roads in London and the towering skyscrapers present in Shanghai.

In his book, the author aims at dealing with several controversial questions as to why people aren’t able to buy property, details about individuals who profit from immigration, and the dramatic change in the economy of China, from being poverty stricken to being of the leaders in world’s economy, which took place in just over 50 years.

The language used by the author is very simple i.e. free from long, technical terms and equations. This book will not only influence the economy of the world but also the choices made by individuals on a daily basis.

This book has been translated into more than 20 languages, selling 600,000 copies around the world.

About Tim Harford

The author of this book Tim Harford is a renowned author and journalist, currently working in the Editorial team of Financial Times.

Some of the books written by the author include The Logic Of Life, Dear Undercover Economist, and Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure.

The author writes a weekly column for the newspaper The Financial Times, which aims at tackling difficulties faced by individuals based on economic theory, which is named “The Undercover Economist”.

The author was born in the year 1973 and holds a bachelor’s degree in Politics, Economics and Philosophy. He also has a Master of Philosophy degree in Economics. The author began work at the Financial Times in the year 2003. He also hosts the radio series named More or Less, aired by BBC. This show has been greatly praised by The Royal Statistical Society for excellence in journalism for three consecutive years i.e. from 2010 to 2012. The articles written by the author have been published in a number of renowned magazines as well as newspapers. Some of them include The Washington Post, New York Times, Sunday Times, Forbes and Wired. He currently resides in Oxford along with his spouse and three kids.