I’ve learned more about economics reading your writing for the last c15 years than I did in five years at Uni (studying Economics, obvs). Specifically, about applying economics to actual real life situations.
I’ve given dozens of talks using ideas (and probably entire verbatim paragraphs) I first encountered on your blog. For example, last month I did sixty minutes on stage in Capetown in front of 250 VCs and assorted CEOs about ‘how incentives matter’. All of this commenced reading your columns at El Reg, and then the Blog. I’ve probably added about 500k to my earnings over the last decade and a bit as a result of stuff I picked up off you.
Which is pretty good, eh?
I hope he has bunged you a few quid!
Doesn’t mention you by name; more likely he’s referring to qualified Professor Murphy ai.
Maybe he looks at Murphy’s output and does the opposite as generally recommended on this blog
Read the tweet and the couple in the thread preceding.
Srsly? Lol.
I’ll endorse, too. It was reading Tim’s Register columns that really woke me up to economics and banged the last coffin nails into my residual Leftiness.
It was Tim’s El Reg column that brought me here. Or rather when they stopped publishing his column and I missed my periodic dose of snark.
Same here. Started reading Tim at the Register. Learned a lot.
I’ve also learned a good deal from reading this blog (both from Tim and the other contributors). As a retired techie, I’m no longer in the business of earning £, but I certainly feel better inoculated against some of the bollocks I read elsewhere.
X post from John Baptist. Middle name “the?”
Timmer going religious on us?
Mr Worstall, did you confirm this is a real person?