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Enrichment
In the face of a flood of bad economic news, this week's Enrichment Task asks Year 12 students to look at the role that government spending could have in promoting economic growth. With a focus on...
Economics and Me - A New Podcast
Will Haines has a new podcast exploring topical issues in Economics and the early episodes are well worth a listen!
The Economics Observatory is launched
A hugely impressive roster of economists have come togetherto answer key policy questions on the Covid-19 crisis.
This week's enrichment tasks have a change of emphasis, as instead of research, they require students to listen to podcasts of recent public lectures at the London School of Economics. The LSE has...
Radical Uncertainty: decision making in an unknowable future [Year 12 Enrichment Task]
This week's enrichment tasks have a change of emphasis, as instead of research, they require students to listen to podcasts of recent public lectures at the London School of Economics. The LSE has...
This is Poverty
This is a really powerful film from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation about the multi-dimensional nature of poverty, which manifests itself in different ways.
CoronaNomics - economic solutions to the corona crisis
CoronaNomics is presented by Ben Chu of the Independent and Lizzy Burden of the Telegraph and guests have included Joe Stiglitz and Esther Duflo.
Is national happiness going to be a better way to measure economies than GDP, in 2020? [Year 12 Enrichment Task]
Year 12 economics students are likely to have studied the various measures of national happiness, or wellbeing, as alternatives to GDP. With the GDP of the UK predicted to shrink by up to a third,...
Should China offer debt forgiveness to the developing world? [Year 13 Enrichment Task]
Students in year 13 will have studied development economics as part of their A level syllabus, and are likely to be aware that debt and loan repayments are one of the factors which constrains...
Brilliant from Beattie - a superb ten minute economic history video from the FT's senior trade writer Alan Beattie looks at the the forces behind the surge and collapse of globalisation. This is...
This week's enrichment task for year 13 students asks them to consider the work of Thomas Piketty, a French economist. In a new book, Piketty explores the ineffectiveness of the traditional parties...
This week's enrichment task for Year 12 students reflects on Brexit - remember that? For the first couple of months of 2020 it seemed likely to be the most fundamental economic shock for the year,...
From our Economics Correspondent: The state of the UK economy in 2025 [Year 12 Enrichment Task]
As I write this entry, the Bank of England has just released a report warning that the UK faces its deepest recession on record. This initial report from the BBCexplains that Bank said that the...
This week's Enrichment Task for Year 13 students was inspired by a BBC radio programme on Monday morning. In 'Start the Week', journalist Andrew Marr explored the history of globalisation (which...
Is there a 'right' price for oil? [Year 13 Enrichment Task}
Both of this week's enrichment tasks for economics students are based on the extraordinary events in oil markets in the last few days. For year 13 students (and year 12's who would like to have a...
Both of this week's enrichment tasks for economics students are based on the extraordinary events in oil markets in the last few days. For year 12 students the question posed asks them to consider...
Nationalisation and Commercial Banks [Year 13 Enrichment Task]
Here is a task which considers the difficulty of implementing the financial support and rescue programmes which the government has put in place since the start of the Covid-19 crisis.
To what extent does the coronavirus pandemic give economies the opportunity to change direction? [Year 12 Enrichment Task]
In the third of a series of weekly Enrichment tasks for economics students, here is a task which considers whether the extensive government measures being taken to keep economies going and to allow...
Tim Harford on why we fail to prepare for disasters
This article by Tim Harford provides quite brilliant analysis and reflection and I urge everyone to take ten minutes to read it.
Exploring Wage Differentials and Remuneration for Key Workers [Year 13 Enrichment Task]
In this task students consider the low wages paid to many of those who have been defined as key workers in the current crisis, and asks whether their roles should be recognised with higher pay,...