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The Importance of Numbers - with Tim Harford

The Numberphile Podcast

CHAPTER

What Did You Think You Were Going to Do?

As an undergraduate at Oxford University, Andyo was playing fantasy games. A friend told him he should go to ireland and teach economics for a year. He then went on to work in the scenario planning department of oil company shell. But his love hate relationship with Shell soon became more than that.

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