Business Economics
The importance of container shipping
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
World of Business - Peter Day on the BBC Web Site
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
T-Shirts and consumer choice
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Unit 1 Micro: Yunus Calls for International Minimum Wage
Monday, May 13, 2013
Unit 3 Micro: Businesses Prospering During the Depression
Cover to Cover - Ten Stories from the FT
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Unit 4 Macro: Credit Constraints and the Economic Recovery
Friday, May 03, 2013
Revision Quiz: AS Economics: Imperfect Markets (1)
Monday, April 22, 2013
Unit 3 Micro: Mergers and Acquisitions Update
Friday, April 19, 2013
Paul Ormerod: Whatever happened to all those miners? Shocks and economic resilience
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Woodhorn - Celebrating Coal Community and Creativity
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Unit 2 Macro: Investment in UK Economy Remains Low
Monday, April 08, 2013
Happy birthday VAT! 40 years old this month
Sunday, April 07, 2013
Unit 2 Macro: The Great Productivity Puzzle
Friday, April 05, 2013
Revision Quiz: A2 Economics: Perfect Competition (1)
Thursday, April 04, 2013
Revision Quiz: A2 Economics: Monopoly (1)
Revision Quiz: A2 Economics: Economic Efficiency (1)
Revision Quiz: A2 Economics: Contestable Markets (1)
Revision Quiz: A2 Economics: Business Costs & Revenues (1)
Unit 3 Micro: Minimum Wage and Inequality
Unit 3 Micro: Small firms and innovation
Wednesday, April 03, 2013
Unit 2 Macro: Revise and Test - National Income
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Unit 4 Macro: Can India lead in Mobile Technology
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Unit 3 Micro: The battle for 3rd place in mobile operating systems
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Unit 4 Macro: Mobile internet reaches rural Indonesia
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Unit 3 Micro: Winning Bids in 4G Licence Auction
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Unit 1 Micro: Falling Car Use among Younger Drivers
Monday, February 18, 2013
Unit 1 Micro: Video Examples of the Division of Labour
Saturday, February 09, 2013
HS2 The Ultimate Vanity Trainset
Monday, January 28, 2013
Unit 3 Micro: Samsung surges ahead in global smartphone sales
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Unit 4 Macro: Business Taxes - A Race to the Bottom?
Doddlr - A New Social Aggregator
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Unit 3 Micro: Major tea exporters consider a new cartel
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Unit 1 Micro: E-Bikes on Track for Surge in Demand
Monday, January 21, 2013
A Mega example of contestability
Sunday, January 20, 2013
econoMAX - Behavioral Finance
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Stakeholder conflict - the battle over rewards of work
Unit 4 Macro: Land Grabs and Development
Friday, January 18, 2013
Unit 3 Micro: Why Lego is so popular and profitable
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Unit 4 Macro: Smarter Ways of Measuring Trade in a Globalised World
Paul Ormerod: Meat and potato pies and the Nobel Prize in economics
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Unit 3 Micro: Business Economics News Stories
Tuesday, January 08, 2013
Unit 3 Micro: Business Economics Glossary (EdExcel)
Thursday, January 03, 2013
Unit 3 Micro: DropBox - Network Economics and Market Contestability
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
EdExcel Economics Unit 3 Micro - Structured Question Topic Tracker
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Don’t You Want Me Baby? - competition regulation in action
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Unit 3 Micro: Top Firms Target the Rich
Monday, December 17, 2012
Monopsony in the Supermarket Industry- Exam Questions
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Unit 3 Micro: Tesco Goes West - Failure in the USA
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Unit 3 Micro: Market Power and Pricing Power
Monday, December 10, 2012
Supermarket Pricing Strategies
Friday, November 30, 2012
Unit 2 Macro: Unemployment Rises as Hovis Factory Closes
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Peter Marsh - A New Industrial Revolution
Goldman Sachs - an example of Diseconomies of scale
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Paul Ormerod: The psychology of mergers and acquisitions
Economics of a Living Wage
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Business and Consumer Behaviour - Some Discussion Questions
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Unit 3 Micro: Scoop-It on Market Structures
Monday, November 12, 2012
Unit 3 Micro: Corporate Tax Avoidance and Reputational Risk
Unit 1 Micro: How Hot Dogs Are Made
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Great Economist Article on Diseconomies of Scale
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Chocolate Passion - Grown in St Lucia, Made in Cambridge
Friday, November 09, 2012
The 2012 GCSE fiasco - are there parallels with the Banking crisis?
Friday, November 02, 2012
Unit 3 Micro: Ingredients for Innovative Businesses
Thursday, November 01, 2012
Student View: Aggreko - Turning short-term solutions into long-term profit
Japanese Technology and an Unbeatable Keeper!
Paul Ormerod: Corporation tax: fostering the illusions of the electorate that someone else will pay
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
A Living Wage part 2 - some evidence for student analysis
Monday, October 29, 2012
Economies of Scale at Google
Unit 2 Macro: Ford announces the closure of UK assembly plants
Friday, October 26, 2012
Unit 3 Micro: Nike Kicks Umbro into Row Z
Paul Ormerod: If it can happen to Google, who can feel safe?
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Unit 2 Macro: Can UK Exporters Boost the Recovery?
Using McDonald’s as an example - I’m loving it
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Unit 3 Micro: The Rise of Dynamic Ticket Pricing in Sport
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Unit 1 Micro: Bargain Basements for Luxury Goods
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Diseconomies of Scale Activities - revisited
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Civil Service on the WCM line
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Economics at the movies-Bananas!
Sunday, October 07, 2012
Paul Ormerod: Ninja Turtles, Nick Clegg and Market Failure
Thursday, October 04, 2012
West Coast Rail Line franchise decision - a fine example of Government failure
Wednesday, October 03, 2012
Microsoft market domination
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Unit 2 Macro Building on the Green Belt in a Drive for Growth
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Unit 1 Micro: Smartphone Penetration and Creative Destruction
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Diseconomies of Scale Activities
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Unit 1 Micro: Capacity problems following Olympic surge in demand
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Paul Ormerod: We are all better off than we think
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Unit 2 Macro: UK Productivity Gap Grows
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Unit 1 Micro: Prices in Action - Ticket Pricing at Derby County
Monday, September 17, 2012
Unit 3 Micro: OFT Investigates the UK Retail Fuel Market
Wednesday, September 05, 2012
Unit 3 Micro: Market Power in International Parcels
Tuesday, September 04, 2012
Unit 1 Micro: What future for the skateboard industry?
The Olympics and the wider struggle
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Unit 3 Micro: Regulated and Unregulated Train Fares
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Unit 1 Micro: Rising Wages and Demand for Robotics
Monday, August 20, 2012
Deloitte Summer Reading List
Tuesday, August 07, 2012
Unit 2 Macro: The Funding for Lending Scheme
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Unit 1 Micro: Recycling and Reusing Electrical Waste
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Unit 3 Micro: On Demand Manufacturing
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Unit 3 Micro: Economics of the Milk Industry
Thursday, July 12, 2012
