Economics Resources - Week Ended 6 November 2011

Another really busy week on the Economics blogs with over 30 new items. Here is my selection of some of the most popular new entries and resources over the last 7 days:

Unit 2 Macro: Video Clips on Unemployment
Here are some short video news clips on aspects of unemployment that Geoff has been using when teaching unemployment to AS and A2 groups

Unit 4 Macro: China and India - Notes from Martin Wolf
Pete Davies from Greenhead College attended a superb talk by Martin Wolf CBE (Financial Times) at Leeds Business School last week and has provided these excellent notes from the talk which will be of great use to teachers and students covering key globalisation / development topics.

The World Economy: how did we get here and where are we going?
Our new blogger Oliver Fernie attended a fascinating lecture at the LSE by Nemat Shafik, Deputy Managing Director of the IMF. Here are his detailed notes from the lecture.

Unit 1 Micro: Positive and Negative Externalities (AQA)
Paul Sheppard logged into the AQA online CPD update course this week and has written a report about an important change in the way that AQA propose to mark questions involving demerit goods.

Unit 3 Micro: Examples of Price Discrimination in Action
Geoff tweeted last week asking economics teaching colleagues what examples they like to use when teaching the topic of price discrimination under conditions of monopoly / imperfect competition. Thank you to everyone who contributed - the ideas are listed here:

econoMAX latest edition
The second edition of econoMAX, our digital magazine for A Level students and teachers, is now available. Follow this link for details of the new articles.

The renowned economist Paul Ormerod visited Oundle School last week to give a talk to their Economics Society. Mo Tanweer has produced this superb summary of many of the key points and discussion items from the Q&A session.

Unit 2 Macro: Evaluation on Supply-Side Policies [21 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: The Current Account of the Balance of Payments [20 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Migration and the UK Economy [20 May 2012]
Revision notes on unemployment [20 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision Presentation on Government Intervention [16 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision Presentation on the Price Mechanism [16 May 2012]
Improving Evaluation Skills in Economics Exams [16 May 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: African Human Development Report 2012 [15 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision Blogs on Markets and Intervention [10 May 2012]
Made in China - but not quite so cheaply…... [7 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: 10 Key Revision Topics for EdExcel [7 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Trade and Balance of Payments Glossary [5 May 2012]
Exam Technique for Economics - Weesteps to Evaluation [5 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Using the Cost-Benefit Principle [30 Apr 2012]
Macro Revision: Putting Things in Context [29 Apr 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Key Diagrams for Business Economics [17 Apr 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Managing the Global Commons - Limits to GDP [15 Apr 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Mini Documentary on Financial Instability [15 Apr 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Globalisation Revision Quiz [14 Apr 2012]
Ukraine Hotel ‘Bandits’? [12 Apr 2012]
Government Intervention in the Energy Market [11 Apr 2012]
Football Clubs to Pay for Negative Externalities [11 Apr 2012]
2012 Economics Revision: Ways to Improve your Paper [9 Apr 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Productivity Improvements in China [3 Apr 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Evaluating 3 Years of Quantitative Easing [27 Mar 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Highest and Lowest Paid Jobs in the UK [26 Feb 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: King on the UK Economy [15 Feb 2012]
Martin Wolf on Global Shocks [10 Feb 2012]
Competitiveness [8 Feb 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Russia Joins the WTO [22 Jan 2012]
Teaching vacancy - Economics & Business Studies, Reed’s School - Cobham, Surrey [19 Jan 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Time to Re-Boot the British Economy [14 Jan 2012]
Revision Presentation: Economics Evaluation Skills [10 Jan 2012]
Exam Advice: 10 Ideas for a Better Economics Paper [10 Jan 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Factors Driving Business Investment [10 Jan 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Natural Disasters and their Economic Impact [7 Jan 2012]
AS and A2 Economics - 10 Ways to Improve Evaluation [4 Jan 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Prezi on the Economics of Negative Externalities [2 Jan 2012]
Resources on Keynes and Hayek [27 Dec 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: Brazil Overtakes UK in Economic Size [26 Dec 2011]
Introduction to Neuroeconomics - Fusing Psychology with Economics [16 Dec 2011]
Great Economics Blog to Follow - Danny Quah [15 Dec 2011]
Rory Sutherland at Zeitgeist [1 Dec 2011]
Behavioural Economics: Herd Behaviour [28 Nov 2011]
Jim O’Neill - The Growth Map: Economic Opportunity in the BRICs and Beyond [22 Nov 2011]
Stephen King - Great Article on Macroeconomics [22 Nov 2011]
Beyond the Bike - The Value of Money [19 Nov 2011]
LSE Lecture: Daniel Kahneman - Thinking Fast and Slow [15 Nov 2011]
LSE lecture: Darwin economy [13 Nov 2011]
Oxbridge: New Radio 4 Series on Global Economics [8 Nov 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: China and India - Notes from Martin Wolf [6 Nov 2011]
Tour of the US income distribution – “The L Curve” [25 Oct 2011]
Is happiness the right measure of social progress? [20 Oct 2011]
Why Is Macroeconomics Such A Mess? [11 Oct 2011]
Fat tax: Denmark [5 Oct 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: When China Met Africa [1 Oct 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: EU proposes a “Tobin Tax” [28 Sep 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: Progress towards Millennium Goals [12 Sep 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: Inequality and Development [12 Sep 2011]
Starter Video: The Slums of Manilla [11 Sep 2011]
50% tax rates - Chuck it George [7 Sep 2011]
NHS spending good, private provision bad? [5 Sep 2011]
Mixing with the Nobel Economists [4 Sep 2011]
Toilet rolls, soap and climate change [1 Sep 2011]
John Kay on the future of Economics [26 Aug 2011]
Slicing up the Apple - globalisation graphic [22 Aug 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: GDP per person since the credit crunch [19 Aug 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: The Price of Football [2 Aug 2011]
7 Reasons why Teachers should Blog [7 Jul 2011]
tutor2u June 2011 Economics Teacher Conference [18 Jun 2011]
Six Global Trends Shaping Business Strategy [15 Jun 2011]
Shaping the Future - Blanchflower on the UK Economy [7 Jun 2011]
Poor Economics - Esther Duflo at the LSE [3 Jun 2011]
Not so much food inflation, but food hyperinflation! [30 May 2011]
AS Macro: Preparing for Unit 2 (May 2011) [25 May 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Supply-Side Policies [25 May 2011]
AQA A2 Economics - European Context [23 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Competition and Efficiency [19 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Innovation and Economic Policies [18 May 2011]
UK Economy Update: What Mervyn Said [11 May 2011]
Review of “Adapt” by Tim Harford [9 May 2011]
Dominos Pizza turns to Behavioural Economics [5 May 2011]
AS Micro: Rising Global Food Prices [2 May 2011]
Video Clips on the Chinese Economy [1 May 2011]
AS and A2 Macro Revision: Keynesian Economics [28 Apr 2011]
Economics Recommended Reading - Summer 2011 [26 Apr 2011]
AS and A2 Macro Revision: The China Effect [26 Apr 2011]
A2 Macro: Twin Deficits [22 Apr 2011]
AS Micro Revision: Public and Private Goods [21 Apr 2011]
Fantastic short piece on nudges and shoves! [19 Apr 2011]
UK Economy at a Glance April 2011 [17 Apr 2011]
Key AS Micro Terms: Economic Efficiency [16 Apr 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Information Failure [15 Apr 2011]
Online Economics Revision Help [13 Apr 2011]
Tracking the effects of the recession on GDP [5 Apr 2011]
AS Macro Revision - Key Term Revision Bank [1 Apr 2011]
AS Micro Revision - Key Term Revision Bank [1 Apr 2011]
The New North - Population Shift [23 Mar 2011]
Progress towards low carbon economic growth [18 Mar 2011]
Global supply chain threatened by Japanese disaster [16 Mar 2011]

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