Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Pushkin Industries
We tell our children unsettling fairy tales to teach them valuable lessons, but these Cautionary Tales are for the education of the grown ups – and they are all true. Tim Harford (Financial Times, BBC, author of “The Data Detective”) brings you stories of awful human error, tragic catastrophes, and hilarious fiascos. They'll delight you, scare you, but also make you wiser. New episodes every Friday.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 8 episodes
The detective
Roderick Thorp
#2 Mentioned in 4 episodes
The Art of Fairness
David Bodanis
#3 Mentioned in 4 episodes
Humble Pi
A Comedy of Maths Errors
Matt Parker
#4 Mentioned in 3 episodes
The Ostrich Paradox
Robert Meyer
Howard Kunreuther
#5 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Messy
The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
Tim Harford
#6 Mentioned in 3 episodes
The confidence game
Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time
Maria Konnikova
#7 Mentioned in 3 episodes
How to lie with statistics
IRVING HUFF DARRELL with illustrations by GEIS
Darrell Huff
Irving Geis
Bryan Depuy
#8 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Adapt
Why Success Always Starts with Failure
Tim Harford
#9 Mentioned in 3 episodes
The Unthinkable
who survives when disaster strikes and why
Amanda Ripley
#10 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Meltdown
A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse
Thomas E. Woods Jr.
#11 Mentioned in 3 episodes
1984
George Orwell
#12 Mentioned in 3 episodes
The Biggest Bluff
Maria Konnikova
#13 Mentioned in 2 episodes
How to Trust and Be Trusted
Rachel Botsman
#14 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Normal Accidents
Living with High-Risk Technologies
Charles B. Perrow
#15 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Micromotives and Macrobehavior
Thomas Schelling
#16 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Autobiography of Howard Hughes
Clifford Irving
#17 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Going Infinite
The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Michael Lewis
#18 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Money, the True Story of a Made-Up Thing
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Jacob Goldstein
#19 Mentioned in 2 episodes
A magician among the spirits
Harry Houdini
#20 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Checklist Manifesto
How To Get Things Right
Atul Gawande
