The Card Room contains twenty men and twenty women, plus the cashier, who acts as a referee ( Read more... )

I have made it into that stalwart magazine, The Radio Times.

If you really want the
gory details, read on...

It is, I admit, an implausible piece of casting. I am ungainly, balding, bespectacled and rather shy. I make an unlikely television presenter. But I bluffed my way past the front door of a production company called Tiger Aspect, which makes ( Read more... )

Today, 'The Undercover Economist' entered the top 100 on Amazon.com. By the time you click here it will probably have left it again, but it was officially A Good Day and something of a surprise to me.

Undercover Economist is now shipping from Amazon, and the publication date is 1 November ( Read more... )

For those of you who're interested, there's a 5000 word extract of 'The Undercover Economist' in tomorrow's Financial Times:
http://news.ft.com/artsandweekend

...anyone in the UK or Ireland heard of the film 'Domino', which opened in the US on Friday? Anyone know whether it will open in UK or Irish cinemas anytime this time of doomsday?

The reviews are starting to appear. So are the pieces designed to get attention. The Undercover Economist briefly climbed into the top 500 books on Amazon yesterday after some mentions in the blogs. Now the weeks of checking my sales rank every 10 minutes begin... I am having a wonderful time ( Read more... )

I have a piece in praise of the great Tom Schelling in the FT on Wednesday; it's also here: http://www.timharford.com/favourites/schelling.htm

A colleague and I have launched the World Bank's first official blog: http://psdblog.worldbank.org/psdblog/
We're having fun. Colleagues are gobsmacked that we've persuaded the powers that be to let us do it, but the powers that be are ever-enlightened...

You can enjoy my first radio interview here, if you like: http://www.here-now.org/shows/2005/07/20050727_13.asp