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Economics in the News : Archive for April 2006 The following articles on Economics in the News were published during April 2006 |
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| Today's blog provides a second edition of our popular macroeconomics chart quiz - an interesting test of your understanding of key UK and international economic data trends, with the titles of charts cunningly left off for you to identify! | |||
| Today's blog provides a 50 question true and false quiz on micro and macroeconomics - designed for A2 students in their revision. Download the quiz file and an answer document too! | |||
| The British economy under Labour. Economist James Ford offers a superb evaluation of the effectiveness of Labour’s economics policies since 1997 in improving the performance of the economy. | |||
| Today's blog revises national income and living standards, download revision documents. | |||
| Today's blog provides 50 fifty revision questions on macreconomics for A2 economists together with an updated PowerPoint edition of the UK Economy in Pictures. Download both documents for your revision. | |||
| Today's blog provides a set of revision diagrams for A2 students working towards their papers on the theory of the firm this summer. Download the document for your revision. | |||
| The latest International Monetary Fund World Economic Outlook paints a glowing picture of recent world economic growth and low inflation, but there are dangers of much more turbulent times ahead. Today's blog provides a series of animated charts drawn from their publication. | |||
| Today's blog contains a fully revised and updated online mind map on the topic of inflation - designed mainly for AS-level students but hopefully useful too for A2 level students - the mind map contains updated charts and lots of external web links. | |||
| For today's blog I have updated and expanded a mindmap on some of the key economic challenges facing the European Union economy. The mindmap has then been saved into online format with some interactive web pages taking you to a variety of useful external sites. | |||
| Today's blog considers the "growth of firms" as a revision topic. I have extended and revised a mindmap on the growth of firms and you can access it directly from the blog. Useful I hope as part of your microeconomics revision. | |||
| Today's blog carries updated advice and links for students wanting to study Economics at university. The notes are designed for AS students approaching the 2006 UCAS application season. | |||
| Some really good articles and reviews have appeared in the last few days - today's blog provides the links | |||
| Today's blog provides a selection of important diagrams that might be used in AS macroeconomics questions. | |||
| There are a number of useful web sites carrying information on newly released pieces of economic research. Today's blog provides links to some of them. | |||
| 13 key diagrams for AS microeconomics - download a revision document designed for AS Economics students | |||
| A selection of news stories from the last week are covered in today's blog. China may become a ship-building superpower; a price war breaks out in the market for broadband; gold and zinc prices reach fresh highs as the raw material price boom continues. | |||
| Today's blog looks at the latest rankings on the biggest exporting and importing countries in the world economy as the World Trade Organisation launches it's 2005 World Trade Review | |||
| World oil prices are rising once again with a seventy dollar barrel of oil a real possibility in the next few days. Today's blog launches a new student resource on the economics of oil prices and their effects on the UK economy. The mindmap resource has been transformed into a series of dynamic web pages complete with plenty of external links on this important topic. | |||
| Today's blog provides links to the revised edition of the "UK Economy in a Nutshell" - designed as a revision aid for AS and A2 students | |||
| Today's blog focuses on the importance of innovation in markets for economic growth and competitiveness. Download a pdf mind map on the economics of innovation. | |||
| The European Union has introduced tariffs on shoe producers in China and Vietnam. Today's blog takes the opportunity of looking at the economic costs and benefits of protectionism. | |||
| The latest survey of corporate tax rates across Europe shows that tax competition between Europe's existing and potential member states is continuing to lead to a decline in the taxation of company profits. | |||
| Manufacturing industry is now producing less than it did when Tony Blair walked into Downing Street in 1997, why is the sector in such trouble - download a presentation | |||
| Today's blog provides some ideas for improving your scores on the data description questions in data response papers as AS and A2 levels. Six separate charts are taken and considered. | |||
| Challenges facing the European Union economy. I have been sitting down and thinking about the major macroeconomic challenges and problems facing the EU economy. Today's blog offers a downloadable pdf file of the mindmap I have developed on this topic. | |||
| Revision on Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the Euro Zone. These are notes from a talk from Chris Allsopp, former member of the MPC, given to the EBEA Conference, New College, Oxford, Tuesday 4th April 2006. I have added supplementary charts and tables of data to support some of the arguments that were raised in the presentation and following discussion. | |||
| Commodity prices have risen to new highs, this increases supply costs for businesses throughout the economy and, for a given level of demand, a fall in supply should follow through to higher prices for consumers? But world inflation remains low and barely seems to have changed from the low rates experienced since the start of the decade. Why is this? | |||
| Today's blog provides a short quiz designed to test your understanding of some varied economic data charts drawn from the UK and the international economy. Teachers may want to download the file for use as a revision quiz. | |||
| A selection of interesting news stories that have cropped up this week. Asda opens a new style of store; the Royal Mail seeks to give its employees shares; John Kay on the battle between Toshiba and Sony. And disappointing productivity figures for Chancellor Brown. | |||
| Today's blog focuses on farming. 2005 was another difficult year for the farming community in the UK. New figures on the financial position of the farming sector highlight the continued decline in real incomes from farming and the declining contribution of the industry to national output. | |||
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| Other essential economics resources: | |||
| econoMAX - the Economics Magazine for AS & A2 Economics | |||
| Economics Exam Technique - Guidance from the Examiners | |||
| The UK Economy in a Nutshell | |||
| The European Economy - New Free Resources | |||
| Economics - Student Discussion Board | |||
| GCSE Economics Revision Notes | |||
| AS & A2 Economics Revision Notes | |||
