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What can economics learn from sport?
From loss aversion to game theory, how sports provide evidence for economic theories
Is Trump right about violent crime in Venezuela and the US?
Donald Trump says Venezuela is becoming safer than the US. Is he right?
Nobel Prize: Why are some countries so much richer than others?
Why Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
Uncertainty, probability and double yoked eggs
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter on his new book, The Art of Uncertainty
Are 672 billion pounds of corn eaten in the US every year?
A lot of corn is eaten in the United States, but is it really 2.5kg per person per day?
The puzzles you’re meant to get wrong
Alex Bellos sets Tim Harford logical conundrums designed to deceive
Do 85% of the world’s population practice a religion?
Counting religions across the globe – is the world getting more religious or less?
Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?
Poker player and polling analyst Nate Silver on his new book
Who pays when trade wars heat up?
We look at Donald Trump’s claim that tariffs are a tax on other countries
Where have Cuba’s people gone?
We investigate the collapse in the Caribbean island’s population.