Tim Worstall

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Tim Worstall (b. 1963, Torquay) is an English writer and blogger, who writes about a variety of topics, but particularly about economics. In his day job, he works as a consultant and dealer in scandium and other exotic metals.[1] He occasionally and humorously refers to himself in his blog and articles as a member of the "international scandium oligopoly."

Worstall has written a blog since April 2004.[2] The blog received approximately one million visits in the year to August 2006. It had a world-wide readership in that period, though most of the visits came from the United States and Europe.[3]

Two of Worstall's articles about the 7 July 2005 London bombings have been archived by the UK Web Archiving Consortium.[4]

Worstall has written regularly for the online magazine TCS Daily since May 2004.[5] In a 23 June 2005 article, he coined Worstall's Law of Organizations: "All and any organizations will in the end be run by those who stay awake in committee." [6]

In November 2005, Worstall compiled the book 2005 Blogged: Dispatches from the Blogosphere, an anthology of blogging.[7]

Since September 2006, Worstall has been a contributor to The Philadelphia Inquirer's "Editorials & Commentary" page[8]

He lives in Portugal with his wife.

[edit] Sources

  1. ^ The Low Hanging Fruit Company ( BVI ) Limited. Retrieved on 2006-09-03.
  2. ^ Worstall, Tim. "Why I pull columns apart", Press Gazette, 2006-06-01. 
  3. ^ ClustrMaps+ World Map for http://timworstall.typepad.com. ClustrMaps. Retrieved on 2006-08-19.
  4. ^ Tim Worstall. UK Web Archiving Consortium. Retrieved on 2006-08-19.
  5. ^ Tim Worstall. TCS Daily. Retrieved on 2006-08-19.
  6. ^ Worstall, Tim. "'Any organization will, in the end, be run by those who stay awake in committee'", TCS Daily, 2005-06-23. 
  7. ^ Worstall, Tim (2005). 2005 Blogged: Dispatches from the blogosphere. London: The Friday Project Limited. ISBN 0-9548318-3-7. 
  8. ^ Worstall, Tim. "Looking at world through shape of a 'J'", The Philadelphia Inquirer, 2006-09-03. 

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