Back to The Undercover Economist homepageJohn Hegley once wrote a poem about accidentally ending up with another boy’s school cap - John Hegarty, a boy with “a name like mine and a cap like mine”. My John Hegarty is Tim Harcourt, chief economist of the Australian Trade Commission, an export-promotion body, and author of “The Airport Economist”, which has just crossed my desk.
I think it will only be published in Australia, which makes sense - it’s very much written with the Australian entrepreneur in mind, but that said, very engaging and (as the title implies), some serious air miles went into the production of this book.
Tim writes about the economics of everyday life. His 