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Reasons to be cheerful about the 2019 Economics Nobel Winners
This year’s Nobel Prize in economics, announced on Monday, was a ray of sunshine amidst the prevailing media gloom. The award was made for the work of the new Laureates on the alleviation of global...
Banerjee, Duflo and Kremer win the 2019 Economics Nobel
We are delighted that the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics has been jointly awarded to Esther Duflo (only the second female recipient) along with Michael Kremer and Abhijit Banerjee for their...
Discover Economics campaign launches this week!
This is a hugely important campaign for the future of our great subject. Please disseminate widely if you can.
Have factories made the lives of workers better?
Here is Tim Harford's short piece on The Factory - in series two of fifty things that made the modern economy. Factories are changing and scaling to almost unprecedented sizes. But the increase in...
What the company of the future might look like
The Big Read in the Financial Times today is a superb piece by Andrew Hill on the limits of the pursuit of profit. In this very accessible and clear video, he talks through some of the main themes...
Student essay: Will Uber ever be profitable?
Year 12 student Max Ghose has written this superb introductory micro essay on Uber.
How we make pencils
Get those pencils ready to pick out a huge amount of microeconomics in this brilliant 4 minute clip from Faber-Castell which produces 2.3 billion pencils a year and has been in business for over...
Energy economics: The long history of solar power
The latest episode in the 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy series with Tim Harford looks at solar panels, and their impact on the modern economy. Excellent enrichment as always! I've added...
The man who helped feed the world
This entry in the 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy series looks at the almost inestimable benefits of the work of Nobel Prize winner, Norman Borlaug, in developing disease-resistant wheat and...
Marshall Society Economics Essay Competition 2019
The Marshall Society, the economics society of the University of Cambridge, is excited to launch its 2019 essay competition. The deadline for essay submissions is 11:59pm 11th August 2019.
Danny Dorey-Rodriguez has written this superb reflection on the work of Professor Cesar Hidalgo from MIT who has contributed greatly to our understanding of how crystallised information and...
Basic Income and Universal Basic Services - free access to a live debate on possible policies for the UK's social security system
The team at Promoting Economic Pluralism are hosting an event in London next week debating the relative merits of Basic Income and Universal Basic Services. It looks potentially useful for teaching...
Distracted Goalkeeper (Uber Media Campaign)
A great example of how to think in different ways to get people to consider the social costs of using a mobile phone when driving.
The Tampon Book : A Book against Tax Discrimination
Thinking counter-intuitively - this ingenious advertising campaign by-passed a German law which taxed tampons at 17 percent and prompted fresh political pressure to reform.
LSE Economics Society Essay Competition 2019
Here are details of the 2019 LSE Economics Society essay competition for A Level students. The closing date for entries is the 1st of August.
Ken Loach's new film "Sorry we Missed You" is s searing follow-up to the much-acclaimed "I Daniel Blake" and focuses on the lives and work of families in the Gig Economy in the North East of...
BBC Newsnight has produced three special videos to mark the 40th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher becoming Prime Minister. Is the UK economy on the verge of another historic sea-change moment?
An oil price spike could accelerate decarbonisation
The tanker attacks in the Gulf of Oman have raised fears of a sharp increase in the price of oil. These are currently being offset by worries about a slowdown in the world economy and a drop in the...
The price of plenty - how beef changed America
Economic gold - and a great way to pass half an hour. The Guardian's audio long read about the impact of the beef industry on the US, and how it's changed is one for the cognoscenti but it's a...
De-constructing the Laffer Curve and Trickle-down Economics
Here is a great opinion piece from Morris Pearl in the Guardian on trickle-down economics, echoing J.K.Galbraith's view that the very notion is flawed. His analogy was that trickle-down economics...