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Enrichment
Revolutionary technologies can take decades for their full impact to become clear. The internet may now be heralding the demise of many manufacturing companies.
This 12 minute video from PBS in the USA is ideal enrichment material for students looking at the issue of how to measure and calibrate changes in economic well-being, a much broader and - to an...
Capital in the 21st Century - The Official Trailer
Here is the trailer for Capital in the 21st Century which comes out in the summer of 2019 and is a film adaptation of one of the most groundbreaking and powerful books of our time by Thomas Piketty.
Put your revision notes down for 6 minutes to watch this! Why is vanilla so expensive? There is a strong case for saying that the entire A level micro and macro course could be taught just using...
The Limits of Rational Economic Man
Here is a conversation between Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel and Harvard economist Greg Mankiw who discuss the role of government, morality, and markets in public health including a...
Climate change: the inter-generational challenge
Excellent Newsnight piece on how climate change might be the biggest inter-generational battle of the 21st century. It highlights the issue in the light of protests from many thousands of young...
Lessons from nine financial crises since the 1960s
The veteran economics journalist William Keegan reflects here on the key events of the eight financial crises involving the UK that he has covered, This is an engaging journey down memory lane for...
The Concept of the Corporation
Something here from John Kay's blog that looks at the nature of the corporation and challenges the view that "shareholders own the company".
CORE Economics - resource update
Here are some details about a fantastic new addition to the CORE Economics website.
Inside China's Future Factory
Bloomberg Business visits Shenzhen the heart of China's tech revolution - a superb nine-minute video guaranteed to stimulate classroom discussion from a growth and development perspective. We meet...
Cows, parmesan and the future of money
The Bank of England has a new blog resource here on the history and the future of money - excellent enrichment reading for students and teachers looking the functions of money and developments in...
50 Things That Made the Modern Economy
Tim Harford's epic series on 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy is now availably indefinitely through BBC Sounds. Naturally it makes great sense to follow Tim on Twitter
Doing Business in the Great Disruption
In this contribution to a Project Syndicate 2019 special edition on the Great Disruption, ING Chief Economist Mark Cliffe argues that "multinationals should start behaving more like multi-locals" -...
Professor Guy Standing on the Precariat and Universal Basic Income
Guy Standing is credited with coining "the precariat" to describe people in work that offers uncertain pay, hours and overall job insecurity. In this short interview at the Warwick Economic Summit...
ERC's 'Clash of the Titans' - a superb competition for Economics Students
If you're looking for a competition to get your students thinking about applying their economic knowledge to the real world then you should give the Economic Research Council's 'Clash of the...
Recommended Enrichment Reading for Students Applying to Read Economics or Management at University
UCAS applications and interviews are coming up. But, what should students be reading if they want to study Management at University when there isn't a Management A-Level? And what are the Economics...
The New Age of Capitalism
What a fantastic enrichment resource for students - David Grossman's The New Age of Capitalism is a series of ten fifteen minute podcasts.
The Economics of Superstars
Rugby Union’s Premiership season is under way again. Yet another professional sport which operates on the principles of socialism: the money all ends up in the pockets of what we might call the...
CORE Schools Economics Challenge 2018
Here are details of a fantastic new challenge from the CORE Economics team in partnership with the Financial Times. The deadline for entries is the 1st of October.
The Joy of Winning - Game Theory in Action
Game theorists will surely love this programme on BBC Four in which Dr Hannah Fry hails the 20th-century scientists like John von Neumann and John Nash who worked out the science of success and...