📱 eBook en inglés How to Make the World Add Up

The Sunday Times Bestseller

Tim Harford is one of my favourite writers in the world. His storytelling is gripping but never overdone, his intellectual honesty is rare and inspiring, and his ability to make complex things simple - but not simplistic - is exceptional. How to Make the World Add Up is another one of his gems. If youre looking for an addictive pageturner that will make you smarter, this is your book Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind

Tim Harford could well be Britains Malcolm Gladwell
Alex Bellos, author of Alexs Adventures in Numberland

If you arent in love with stats before reading this book, you will be by the time youre done. Powerful, persuasive, and in these truth-defying times, indispensable
Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women

In How to Make the World Add Up, Tim Harford draws on his experience as both an economist and presenter of the BBCs radio show More or Less to take us deep into the world of disinformation and obfuscation, bad research and misplaced motivation to find those priceless jewels of data and analysis that make communicating with numbers so rewarding. Through vivid storytelling he reveals how we can evaluate the claims that surround us with confidence, curiosity and a healthy level of scepticism. It is a must-read for anyone who cares about understanding the world around them.

Tim Harford is our most likeable champion of reason and rigour . . . clear, clever and always highly readable
The Times, Books of the Year

Fascinating and enjoyable
Bill Bryson

Now more than ever we need a book like this
Stephen Fry

Wise, humane and, above all, illuminating. Nobody is better on statistics and numbers - and how to make sense of them
Matthew Syed

One of the most wonderful collections of stories that I have read in a long time . . . fascinating.
Steven Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics

Wise and useful . . . such a delight
Financial Times

What should we do when someone makes a claim that they say is based on data? This wise book, distilled from years of experience, gives us the ten commandments, from first examining our feelings, to finally having the humility to admit we may be wrong. Priceless
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter

Announced as a top ten Sunday Times bestseller in paperback on 16 May 2021