Blog and updates
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4 Jun 2020
Is the global fossil fuel industry on the brink of collapse?
The Guardian carries a story that suggests that the market for fossil fuels could collapse, based on a report by financial think-tank Carbon Tracker.
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4 Jun 2020
Confidence is key to recovery - lessons from the Black Death
Can we learn from history? An excellent book by Ben Gummer on the Black Death in 14th century Britain, “The Scourging Angel”, shows that we can.
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4 Jun 2020
Economics and Me - A New Podcast
Will Haines has a new podcast exploring topical issues in Economics and the early episodes are well worth a listen!
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4 Jun 2020
Kahoot Quizzes for Economics
This blog curates an updated series of Kahoot Quizzes on key economics topics.
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4 Jun 2020
The Economics Observatory is launched
A hugely impressive roster of economists have come togetherto answer key policy questions on the Covid-19 crisis.
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1 Jun 2020
COVID-19: the economic policy response [Year 13 Enrichment Task]
This week's enrichment tasks have a change of emphasis, as instead of research, they require students to listen to podcasts of recent public lectures at the London School of Economics. The LSE has...
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1 Jun 2020
Radical Uncertainty: decision making in an unknowable future [Year 12 Enrichment Task]
This week's enrichment tasks have a change of emphasis, as instead of research, they require students to listen to podcasts of recent public lectures at the London School of Economics. The LSE has...
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30 May 2020
Coronavirus accelerates car industry restructuring
The car industry is going to undergo massive restructuring, with Renault shedding 15,000 jobs.
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23 May 2020
Greening the Economy - No Trade Off with Growth
The Guardian makes the case that there is no need for there to be a trade-off between growth and environmental concerns.
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23 May 2020
This is Poverty
This is a really powerful film from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation about the multi-dimensional nature of poverty, which manifests itself in different ways.
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23 May 2020
CoronaNomics - economic solutions to the corona crisis
CoronaNomics is presented by Ben Chu of the Independent and Lizzy Burden of the Telegraph and guests have included Joe Stiglitz and Esther Duflo.
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21 May 2020
Is national happiness going to be a better way to measure economies than GDP, in 2020? [Year 12 Enrichment Task]
Year 12 economics students are likely to have studied the various measures of national happiness, or wellbeing, as alternatives to GDP. With the GDP of the UK predicted to shrink by up to a third,...
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21 May 2020
Should China offer debt forgiveness to the developing world? [Year 13 Enrichment Task]
Students in year 13 will have studied development economics as part of their A level syllabus, and are likely to be aware that debt and loan repayments are one of the factors which constrains...
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20 May 2020
Huge rise in the claimant count as recession bites
The extent of the rise in unemployment as a result of coronavirus is reflected in data that in the first full month of lockdown, the claimant count measure of unemployment reached 2.1 million, a...
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18 May 2020
The rise and fall of global trade: from the Romans to coronavirus
Brilliant from Beattie - a superb ten minute economic history video from the FT's senior trade writer Alan Beattie looks at the the forces behind the surge and collapse of globalisation. This is...
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14 May 2020
Will coronavirus lead to fairer societies? [Year 13 Enrichment Task]
This week's enrichment task for year 13 students asks them to consider the work of Thomas Piketty, a French economist. In a new book, Piketty explores the ineffectiveness of the traditional parties...
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14 May 2020
The EU, Free Trade and Protectionism [Year 12 Enrichment Task]
This week's enrichment task for Year 12 students reflects on Brexit - remember that? For the first couple of months of 2020 it seemed likely to be the most fundamental economic shock for the year,...
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