For the last lesson before the weekend my Year 13 development economists selected four people who have made an important contribution to key growth and development issues over the years – we made use of Tyler Cowen and Alex Tarrabok’s Marginal Revolution University (MRU) website which is full of short videos covering all kinds of development topics
 http://mruniversity.com/

In a 40 minute lesson one can easily cover four economists – students making notes on their key papers / views and then linking to contextual examples in the news at the moment

We chose

• Joseph Schumpeter
• Jeffrey Sachs
• Daron Acemoglu
• Elinor Ostrom

MRU is a resource well worth using perhaps as a flipped classroom activity

Joseph Schumpeter

Jeffrey Sachs

Daron Acemoglu

Elinor Ostrom