I probably want to be liked too much. This is one difference between me and Steve Levitt . Steve Levitt is also much smarter than me and much more successful than me. And that doesn’t bother me at all, but he said he also doesn’t care what anyone thinks about him, or doesn’t seem to care what anyone thinks about him. I actually do care what people think about me. I’d quite like people to think I’m a nice guy, so I’m probably self-censoring at times. Say, maybe I won’t say that because people wouldn’t like that. And that’s probably a fault in a newspaper columnist — you probably shouldn’t care what people think about you, but that’s the way it is.
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Tim Harford
Economics columnist at the Financial Times
United Kingdom · b. 1973
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British economist and journalist, author of The Undercover Economist, Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy and How to Make the World Add Up, and presenter of BBC Radio 4’s More or Less.
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