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2 Sept 2026
The Microeconomics of the Festival Wasteland: Why Do We Abandon Tents?
As the summer festival season draws to a close, the aftermath of events like Reading and Leeds often leaves behind a familiar, depressing sight: a sea of thousands of abandoned tents. From an...
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1 Sept 2026
Introduction to Microeconomics: Marginal Thinking
Economists assume that rational decisions are rarely absolute; instead, they are made at the margin. Marginal thinking involves evaluating the additional benefit of one more unit of an activity...
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1 Sept 2026
Introduction to Microeconomics: Incentives
Incentives are the primary levers that drive human behavior and solve the problem of scarcity. Economics operates on a simple premise: people respond rationally to costs and benefits. If a...
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1 Sept 2026
Introduction to Microeconomics: Scarcity
Scarcity is the fundamental reality that defines economics: human wants are practically infinite, but the resources required to fulfill them are strictly limited. Because we cannot produce...
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27 Aug 2026
Introduction to Macroeconomics I Labour Productivity
If there is one macroeconomic concept that holds the key to long-term prosperity, rising real wages, and improvements in our standard of living, it is labour productivity. Yet, for the UK economy,...
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27 Aug 2026
Expanded Range of Online CPD for Economics Teachers
Over the summer we've been busy adding more short online CPD courses for A-Level Economics teachers. Six more courses have been added bringing the total to 32!
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26 Aug 2026
Introduction to Macroeconomics: The Labour Force
The labour force consists of the economically active population: those of working age who are either in employment or unemployed but actively seeking and available for work. Anyone outside of...
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26 Aug 2026
Introduction to Macroeconomics: Technological Progress
Economic growth isn't just about throwing more capital and labour at a problem. You can build more factories and hire more workers, but eventually, the inescapable law of diminishing returns will...
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26 Aug 2026
Introduction to Macroeconomics: Aggregate Demand
Think of AD as the heartbeat of the macro economy. It isn’t just a dry textbook definition; it is the total planned expenditure on a country’s goods and services at a given overall price level in a...
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25 Aug 2026
Introduction to Macroeconomics: Economic Growth
Economic growth is the sustained increase in the real value of goods and services produced by an economy over a given period of time.
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25 Aug 2026
Introduction to Macroeconomics: Inflation
No macroeconomic concept affects daily life quite as directly—and relentlessly—as inflation. But what exactly is it, and why does it matter so much to policymakers, businesses, and you?
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25 Aug 2026
Introduction to Macroeconomics: Unemployment
Today, we are looking at one of the most critical indicators of an economy’s health: unemployment. But what does it actually mean, and why is it such a primary macroeconomic objective for any...
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24 Aug 2026
Introduction to Macroeconomics: The Cost of Living Crisis
The cost of living crisis is fundamentally a story of real wages and purchasing power. It serves as a stark real-world application of both macroeconomic shocks and microeconomic distributional...
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24 Aug 2026
Introduction to Macroeconomics: Economic Recessions
When the news headlines scream about a "technical recession"—defined by the ONS as two consecutive quarters of negative real GDP growth—it is easy to get lost in the statistics. But understanding...
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23 Aug 2026
Expecting the Unexpected: The Economics of Black Swan Events
If there is one thing traditional macroeconomic forecasting models hate, it’s a surprise. Most standard economic models are built on historical data and normal distributions—they assume tomorrow...
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18 Aug 2026
The Long Shadow of Informality: Barriers to Growth in Developing Economies
The informal economy—characterised by economic activities operating outside of legal and regulatory frameworks—is one of the most pressing challenges facing developing nations today. According to...
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14 Aug 2026
A-Level Economics Results for 2026
Here is a summary of the A-Level Economics for the four leading exam boards for 2026. Full details on every subject can be found from our free exam results data explorer
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14 Aug 2026
A-Level Economics Results 2026 | One Page Summary
Here's a one-page overview of the 2026 A-Level Economics results
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13 Aug 2026
Understanding the Economics of Labour Exploitation
When we think about modern economies, we often picture competitive markets and mutually beneficial exchanges. However, a darker economic reality persists. Labour exploitation occurs when workers...
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12 Aug 2026
Enrichment Economics: Can Economists Actually Run True Experiments?
If you ask a physicist to test a new theory, they head straight to a laboratory, strictly control the surrounding environment, and observe the results. But what happens when your subject matter is...
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