Tim Harford: Preventing Financial Meltdowns
Economic commentator and author Tim Harford presented a creative, challenging perspective on financial systems, drawing upon examples from oil rig explosions to nuclear disasters to make his point. He believes that by studying the triggers of major engineering accidents, we can draw lessons on how to help prevent crises in the financial world.
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ABOUT Tim Harford
“Tim Harford is a Senior Columnist for the Financial Times, a presenter for the BBC and an author of books that aim to explain the economic ideas in the world around us.
He is the author of the million-selling ‘The Undercover Economist, The Logic of Life, and most recently of Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure.
He presented the BBC television series “Trust Me, I’m an Economist” and now presents the BBC radio series “More or Less” on Radio 4 and on the World Service.
His work has also appeared everywhere from the New York Times Magazine to the Colbert Report. Tim and the team from “More or Less” won the Royal Statistical Society’s award for statistical excellence in journalism in 2010 and 2011. He won the 2006 Bastiat Prize for economic journalism in 2006 and was runner-up in 2010.
He was named one of the UK’s top 20 most influential tweeters by The Independent newspaper in 2011. Tim has worked for Shell and the World Bank, and was a member of the Financial Times editorial board from 2006-2009. He is a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford.”
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