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Structural Unemployment from Mitchell and Webb

Ruth Tarrant

16th November 2015

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I absolutely love this hilarious clip from Mitchell and Webb, which explores the impact of a change in the structure of the economy from the perspective of Stone Age man.


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Ruth Tarrant

Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.

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