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Teaching real-world economics to undergraduates

Geoff Riley

11th April 2015

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This Financial Times video looks at the emergence of a new undergraduate degree in economics being taught at UCL and elsewhere in which economics students are taught the subject as if it had actually happened!

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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