Cautionary Tales | 1 September 2023 | 0h 38m | Listen Later 
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First tells the cautionary tale, from Henry Grabar’s book, Paved Paradise, of what went wrong when the Chicago City Council leased its parking meters to Morgan Stanley. Then finishes with an interview with Grabar about the wider lessons on why parking is such an emotive issue for so many people.
Cautionary Tales | 9 December 2022 | 0h 25m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Uses the story of the failure of savings club Farepak to explore the psychology of our frenzied Christmas spending, especially the work of Scroogenomics author Joel Waldfogel, and suggests ways we could improve Christmas gifting.
Cautionary Tales | 26 June 2020 | 0h 27m | Listen Later | iTunes
Tim Harford on the pitfalls of sidestepping economic rationality when rationing the funding of healthcare.
Cautionary Tales | 19 June 2020 | 0h 24m | Listen Later | iTunes
Tim Harford uses the example of the Fukushima nuclear disaster to highlight the pitfalls of ignoring longer-term ills when taking action against urgent dangers.
Cautionary Tales | 22 November 2019 | 0h 33m | Listen Later | iTunes
Galileo tried to teach us that adding more and more layers to a system intended to avert disaster often makes catastrophe all the more likely to happen. His basic lesson has been ignored in nuclear power plants, financial markets and at the Oscars… all resulting in chaos.