Since nothing seems to be off the table when it comes to trade policy, I thought I might put forward a modest two-step trade policy reform to make America great again. Step one, levy a substantial ...

As a tourist, the only reasonable response to Venice’s all-consuming beauty is to gasp in admiration after rounding every corner. As an economist, another response occurs: once upon a time, this ...

One of the healthiest aspects of Lunch with the FT is the fact that several times a year it makes for very salutary reading. A case in point was David Pilling’s lunch with Danish political scientist ...

George Ward Price became the leading journalist of the 1930s through a string of exclusive stories about Nazi Germany. He ...

John von Neumann — the man who created game theory, advanced many branches of mathematics and physics, and did more than anyone to design the modern computer — was someone who attracted a certain ...

I enjoyed Tim Harford’s logic on tariffs (“An alternative take on Trump’s favourite word”, Spectrum, Life & Arts, February 22). Indeed, I enjoyed it so much I have adapted his thinking to ...

As always, email about this stuff — and anything else: [email protected]. I often work late into ... without mentioning my colleague Tim Harford’s 2015 article “The power of saying ...

Written for and first published in the Financial Times on 31 January 2025 ... Links to Bookshop and Amazon may generate referral fees. “Thanks to Tim Harford’s characteristic wit and magnetic ...

As a tourist, the only reasonable response to Venice’s all-consuming beauty is to gasp in admiration after rounding every corner. As an economist, another response occurs: once upon a time, this city ...

This episode is released exclusively on Pushkin+. Episodes are released on the main feed each Friday. In 1998, an art gallery gets a mysterious phone call. The caller claims they have been fooled ...