Cautionary Tales is a podcast produced by Pushkin Industries and hosted by economic journalist Tim Harford.

Prior to his work on Cautionary Tales, Harford authored books on economics and wrote a long-running Financial Times column called the Undercover Economist.

[1] Pushkin is a podcast company specializing in social science and the arts, founded by author Malcolm Gladwell and media executive Jacob Weisberg in 2018.

[2] In addition to Cautionary Tales, the company produces Gladwell's podcast Revisionist History and author Michael Lewis's Against the Rules.

[4] Episodes of the podcast have covered failed scientific breakthroughs and inventions, redundant safety features, human error and other examples of oversights, mistakes and catastrophe.