Biography

I am a member of the Financial Times editorial board. My column, “The Undercover Economist”, which reveals the economic ideas behind everyday experiences, is published in the Financial Times and Slate. I’m also the only economist in the world to run a problem page, “Dear Economist”, in which FT readers’ personal problems are answered tongue-in-cheek with the latest economic theory.
My first book, “The Undercover Economist” has sold 600,000 copies worldwide in over 25 languages. My second book, “The Logic of Life”, has just been published in English; Spanish and other translations are imminent.
I presented the BBC television series “Trust Me, I’m an Economist” and now present the BBC radio series “More or Less”. I am a regular contributor to “Marketplace” and the BBC World Service, and have written for Esquire, Forbes, New York Magazine, the Washington Post and the New York Times. I won the 2006 Bastiat Prize for economic journalism.
Before becoming a writer, I worked for Shell, the World Bank and as a tutor at Oxford University, from where I earned an M.Phil in economics in 1998. I now live in London with my wife and two daughters.