Latest Tim Harford Quotes from Interviews

• Trying to be able to have, let's say, more than three partners was absolutely impossible, at least for my own relationships.

  Tim Harford

  Trying, Three, Able

• There's lots and lots of guys out there. The question is trying to find the right one.

  Tim Harford

  Guy, Trying

  Source: www.npr.org

• Love may be boundless and abundant, but time isn't. Time is finite.

  Tim Harford

  May, Finite, Boundless

  Source: www.npr.org

• Each additional child that you have is going to divide your time and your attention. You're going to have to cram them into a smaller house. They're going to have to share rooms, or you might have to move into the suburbs, somewhere cheaper, further away from where the job is.

  Tim Harford

  Jobs, Children, Moving

  Source: www.npr.org

• Economics spreads happiness.

  Tim Harford

  Economics, Spread

  Source: www.npr.org

• In many ways, love seems to be totally divorced from economics. But then you realize - well, the stakes are high. This is something that matters to us. We're dealing with scarcity. I mean, if you're dating one person, at the very least, you don't have as much time to date another person. And you may well find that you can only date one person at a time.

  Tim Harford

  Mean, Dating, Scarcity

  Source: www.npr.org

• Loss aversion is a really disproportionate anxiety about stuff that doesn't matter very much. So for instance, if you lose $5, you feel really bad about the $5 you've lost. You're cursing yourself. You're going through it again and again. If, on the other hand, you find $5, you go - hey, great, five bucks. And you've forgotten about it really quickly.

  Tim Harford

  Loss, Hands, Anxiety

  Source: www.npr.org

• A lot of international companies invest in the U.K. as a base for doing business with the rest of the European Union.

  Tim Harford

  Unions, Company, European Union

  "Episode 707: Brexit". "Planet Money" with Robert Smith, Jacob Goldstein, www.npr.org. June 26, 2016.

• Norway has a relationship with the EU which is very close. It has to accept most EU rules. It has to pay EU membership fees. It has free movement of people just like other EU countries, but it's not actually in the EU.

  Tim Harford

  Country, People, Movement

  "'This Is Going To Be Bad': Economist Reacts To Brexit Vote". "All Things Considered" with Kelly Mcevers, kvcrnews.org. June 27, 2016.

• We now have political chaos. We've got parties in Ireland saying they want to merge with Northern Ireland. You've got parties in Scotland saying you want to leave the U.K. You've got the Spanish government saying it would like to take ownership of Gibraltar, which is a British overseas territory... So just the politics of this is a mess.

  Tim Harford

  Party, Government, Scotland

  "Episode 707: Brexit". "Planet Money" with Robert Smith, Jacob Goldstein, www.npr.org. June 24, 2016.

• British politicians used to be good at misleading people without actually lying.

  Tim Harford

  Lying, People, Politician

  "Episode 707: Brexit". "Planet Money" with Robert Smith, Jacob Goldstein, www.npr.org. June 26, 2016.