Tim Harford, economist and author of the book 'Messy: How To be Creative and Resilient in a Tidy-Minded World' believes that ugly fonts like Comic Sans or Monotype Corsiva help you concentrate on ...

Of all the dubious claims uttered recently by Elon Musk, I have yet to see a more interesting one than his tweet asserting that “a more accurate measure of GDP would exclude government spending.

Why Steven Levitt swapped academia for podcasting.

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 ...

That’s the question at the heart of The Price of Life, a book by journalist Jenny Kleeman. It turns out that there’s not just one price, there are many - depending on exactly how that life is being ...

Tim Harford’s magazine article “The value of institutional memory” (April 19) was a stark reminder that loss of corporate memory can cause disastrous harm and financial and human loss to ...

Ever wonder why supermarket prices often end in 99 cents? In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, "undercover economist" Tim Harford explains why retailers know what they're doing when they slap ...

And Lent is here, but how long is the Christian fasting period? We look at the history of a very flexible 40 days. Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news, and the world around us.

Britain feels underfunded and falling apart. Leading economist Tim Harford reveals what the numbers really tell us about the state we're in. With BSL.