https://archive.rustgeek.me/tags/ft.com/ Recent content in Ft.com on A Geek's Life Hugo en Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:51:52 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2009/12/03/interesting-random-stuff/ Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:51:52 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2009/12/03/interesting-random-stuff/ <p>Tim Harford, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Undercover-Economist-Tim-Harford/dp/0316732931">The Undercover Economist</a>, writes an intriguing blog at the Financial Times where he provides advice from an Economics standpoint on everyday issues. My current favourites are his analysis of a <a href="http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2009/11/dear-economist-should-i-stay-single-in-italy-%E2%80%93-or-come-home/#comments">32-year old American woman&rsquo;s conundrum: to stay single in Italy or return to San Francisco</a>, <a href="http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2009/11/dear-economist-i-love-walmart-my-wife-hates-it-help/">a man&rsquo;s plea for deliverance from a Walmart hating wife</a>, <a href="http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2009/10/dear-economist-loving-and-losing-%e2%80%93-is-the-cost-too-high/">the statistics on loving and losing</a>, <a href="http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2009/09/dear-economist-should-my-useless-but-sexy-pa-stay/">the useless PA challenge</a> and consumer choice theory applications for the <a href="http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2009/09/dear-economist-solve-my-good-boy-bad-boy-dilemma/">good boy vs bad boy debate!</a></p>