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Enrichment

Why we need a 21st century view of how the economy works

Geoff Riley

28th February 2016

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This extended article from the Evanomics website is a superb enrichment piece for ambitious Year 12 and Year 13 students. The piece is written by Nick Hanauer is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Eric Beinhocker is the Executive Director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford. Among the many stand-out lines is this one "Prosperity in a society is the accumulation of solutions to human problems."

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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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