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  3. Tim Harford: War Games and Armageddon

    Tim Harford tells the story of Thomas Schelling, an economist who helped America and...

  4. Tim Harford: The Kidney Matchmaker

    Tim tells the story of Al Roth, who worked out how to create a clearing-house for kidneys.

  5. Tim Harford: The Indiana Jones of Economics

    Tim Harford tells the story of Bill Phillips - war hero, engineer, crocodile-hunter,...

  6. Tim Harford: The day the geeks took over poker

    Tim tells the story of Chris Ferguson who applied game theory to poker and won - big time.

  7. Tim Harford: Hotpants vs The Knockout Mouse

    Tim Harford weaves together economic ideas with remarkable personal histories in some...

  8. Jared Diamond: How Geography Creates History

    The geographer and polymath Jared Diamond argues that apparently slight differences in...