Blog and updates
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1 May 2021
Why joint consumption suggests pressure for a Soccer Super League will grow
Soccer clubs have traditionally not even attempted to maximise profits. Their principal motivation has been to maximise costs.
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30 Apr 2021
Economics Weekly Quiz - 30 April 2021
Test your knowledge of the week's economic-related stories with the new Economics Weekly Quiz!
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24 Apr 2021
Durham University Economics Society Essay Competition 2021
tutor2u is delighted to support a competition for students run by the Economics Society at Durham University. The deadline is 25th April 2021
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23 Apr 2021
Economics Weekly Quiz - 23 April 2021
Test your knowledge of the week's economic-related stories with the new Economics Weekly Quiz!
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17 Apr 2021
Negative Externalities and Inequality - Communities Battle Incinerators in Baltimore
Most incinerators in the USA are located in low income areas, damaging underlying health conditions for many people who live there. Some local communities are fighting back.
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16 Apr 2021
Import Tariffs: Why Are Cars So Expensive In Tunisia?
Only one in eight cars imported into Tunisia is a new car. The vast majority are used vehicles yet they still sell at vastly inflated prices.
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16 Apr 2021
Economics Weekly Quiz - 16 April 2021
Welcome back to the new term! Test your knowledge of the week's economic-related stories with the new Economics Weekly Quiz!
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15 Apr 2021
Experience Curves: Why expanding renewable energy output will lower the cost of supply
For many products, increases in cumulative production are associated with decreasing unit cost as suppliers move down the experience curve.
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14 Apr 2021
Moral hazard: Does vaccination increase risk-taking behaviour?
New research finds evidence of increased risk-taking behaviour after flu vaccination, which can counter the vaccine’s effectiveness.
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13 Apr 2021
Primary Product Dependency: Ghana's farmers eye sweet success from chocolate
This extended piece by Ijeoma Ndukwe from BBC Business is a superb read on the challenges of overcoming dependency on cocoa growing in Ghana.
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12 Apr 2021
Elasticity of Supply: Booming Ketchup Demand
Soaring demand for individual sachets of tomato ketchup drove their price up by 13% in 2020 as supply did not keep pace.
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11 Apr 2021
Price Mechanism: Worst frost in decades decimated French wine harvest
Supply and demand in action here with news that exceptional frosts in France have caused significant damage to French wine-growers.
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10 Apr 2021
IMF predicts strong rebound in the global economy
The latest IMF forecast predict faster than expected recoveries in 2021 and 2022 for both the global economy and the UK.
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9 Apr 2021
Dynamic efficiency - the search for better batteries
Lithium-ion batteries dominate battery storage in the world economy but, as this FT short video explains, the hunt is on for alternatives.
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8 Apr 2021
Socioeconomics of Disruptive Tech - Wolf and Acemoglu in conversation
Two economists - Martin Wolf (FT) and Daron Acemoğlu - lead a discussion on how disruptive technologies are affecting our economy and society.
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8 Apr 2021
Reopening economies put supply capacity of ports under pressure
This video is a good application of elasticity of supply - namely the capacity of some of the world's biggest ports to cope with surging demand as the global economy rebounds in 2021.
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6 Apr 2021
Will there be a minimum rate for corporation tax across advanced countries?
The payment (or avoidance) of corporate taxes is one of the most pressing issues in global economics at the moment.
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5 Apr 2021
Subnormal profits: LG exits the smartphone industry
A decade ago the South Korean conglomerate LG looked poised to be a major global force in smartphones but they have just announced that they are exiting the industry.
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5 Apr 2021
Regional Inequalities in Sub-Saharan Africa
Two IMF economists look at inequality in a sub-Saharan African setting using a variety of measures - traditional measures looking at household incomes, supplemented by newer indicators looking at...
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2 Apr 2021
Economics Weekly Quiz - 02 April 2021
Test your knowledge of the week's economic-related stories with the new Economics Weekly Quiz!
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