Economics at the Movies - Reggie Perrin’s inebriated speech and economic growth

Another hat tip to Eddie Reynolds for this imaginative use of a clip. In this scene from ‘The fall & rise of Reginald Perrin’  - ‘The Bilberry Hall speech. This summarises issues regarding the pros and cons of economic growth

Unit 4 Macro: African Human Development Report 2012 [15 May 2012]
How do we promote growth in Europe? [10 May 2012]
Economics at the Movies - Foods that Make Billions [15 Jan 2012]
Economics at the Movies - The Joy of Stats [14 Jan 2012]
Economics at the Movies - Monty Python Money Programme Eric Idle Sketch [11 Jan 2012]
Economics at the Movies - Freakonomics [9 Jan 2012]
Africa’s Hopeful Economies [4 Dec 2011]
AS Macro: The State of British Business [13 Nov 2011]
Australia lowers interest rate to 4.5% [1 Nov 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: Economic Importance of Investment [19 Oct 2011]
Keynes Prize: The Economics of Cities (1) [12 Oct 2011]
Economics at the Movies - Too Big to Fail [28 Sep 2011]
Inflation in India [18 Sep 2011]
Study Note - Macroeconomic policy objectives [16 Sep 2011]
Study Note - Measuring national income [16 Sep 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: Economic Growth and Inequality [14 Sep 2011]
Study Note - What is Macroeconomics? [13 Sep 2011]
Economics at the Movies: Up in Smoke [2 Sep 2011]
Economics at the Movies: Seabiscuit and the Depression [31 Aug 2011]
Economics at the Movies: Local Hero - Valuing our heritage [30 Aug 2011]
Economics at the Movies: Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World! [29 Aug 2011]
Economics at the Movies: The Cove - Trade in Dolphins [28 Aug 2011]
Economics at the Movies: Castaway Revisited [27 Aug 2011]
Page One - a movie about the New York Times [26 Aug 2011]
Economics at the Movies: A Beautiful Mind [26 Aug 2011]
Economics at the Movies: Wayne’s World & Product Placement [26 Aug 2011]
Economics at the Movies: Plastic Surgery - Need or Want? [26 Aug 2011]
Economics at the Movies - The Game of Chicken [18 Jul 2011]
Economics at the Movies - Utility of Decorative Pillows [18 Jul 2011]
Tech & Pop Culture in Teaching Economics [17 Jul 2011]
UK Economy - the search for growth [16 Mar 2011]
AS Macro Revision: Investment Spending [12 Mar 2011]
Role-playing and Economic growth [22 Feb 2011]
Economic Growth Presentation [18 Feb 2011]
Economics at the Movies - Margin Call [23 Jan 2011]
The Impossible Hamster and Economic Growth [18 Jan 2011]
An amusing introduction to the recession [1 Dec 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Four Yorkshiremen and Happiness Economics [31 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - The Dark Knight and Game Theory [30 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Bank Run Scene from A Wonderful Life [30 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Wedding Crashers and Free Riders [29 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Our Daily Bread [28 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Couscous [27 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - The Vanishing Bees [27 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Austin Powers and Inflation [23 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Hudsucker Proxy and Consumer Demand [21 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Billy Ray Valentine learns commodities [20 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - For the Love of the Game [20 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Goodbye Lenin [20 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - The Damned United and the Principle Agent Problem [19 Oct 2010]
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Quality Rubbish! [14 Oct 2010]
Video resources on UK economic growth [6 Oct 2010]
A2 Macro - Economic Growth Charts [21 Sep 2010]
Greek brain drain [15 Sep 2010]
A selection of revision notes on economic growth and development [4 Jun 2010]
Indian Economy Chartroom [21 May 2010]
Long Swings in Global Growth Drivers [29 Mar 2010]
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Human and social capital and pathways to prosperity [14 Oct 2009]

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