# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tim-harford
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:02:31.715Z

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name: "Tim Harford"
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description: "Timothy Douglas Harford, OBE is an English economic journalist who lives in Oxford. Harford is the author of four economics books and writes his long-running Financial Times column, The Undercover Economist, syndicated in Slate magazine, which explores the economic ideas behind everyday experiences. His column in the Financial Times, Since You Asked, ran between 2011 and 2014 and offered a sceptical look at the news of the week."
tagline: "British economist and journalist"
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birthDate: "1973-09-27"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump