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Thomas Schelling, Henry Kissinger, and Dr Strangelove
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Thomas Schelling, game theory, and nuclear deterrence
Here's a four-minute video, an extract from a forthcoming episode of Pop-up Economics - do please sign up for the free podcast! Next episode on BBC Radio 4 tonight, 8.45pm GMT. [EDIT: Full 14 minute video is now available.]
The Indiana Jones of Economics
This is an edited version (five minutes rather than thirteen) of my talk on the amazing life of Bill Phillips. [EDIT: The full-length version is now available.] It's part of the pop-up economics series - listen out at 8.45pm GMT, Radio 4, for the story of of two Nobel...
How to support innovations that matter
That was the topic of the first episode of "Pop Up Economics", and here's the video!
Pop-Up Economics – new radio series
I'm delighted to announce the arrival of "Pop Up Economics", my new radio series for the BBC. I'm proud of it and I think my producers have made it sound exciting and very different. The show is all about storytelling - and the stories are of remarkable lives or...
Come and see live economics storytelling at St Pancras Station…
This is the second recording session for my brand new series, "Pop Up Economics". Come along - it's free and it will be lots of fun. 12.45pm, St Pancras Station, 14 January. Details, and for free tickets, here. EDIT: Sorry - oversubscribed five times over...
Come and see me record a brand new radio show about economics!
I'm delighted to announce that the BBC will be broadcasting a brand new show called "Pop Up Economics" - just me telling short stories about important people and ideas in economics. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll optimise. Come along! The first recording is in...
A failure tour of New York
NPR's Planet Money took me on a tour recently. Listen here. On today's Planet Money, we hit the streets of Manhattan with economist Tim Harford. In his new book, Adapt, Harford argues that success always starts with failure. Harford takes us on a failure tour of New...
More or Less
Tomorrow's "More or Less" presents the results of our alternative to the census, asks "What is GDP?" - and should it be replaced? - and meets the man Michael Gove says is the most important figure in British education. Tune in on Friday at 1.30pm BST on Radio 4 - or...