Blog and updates
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24 Feb 2020
UK Economic Inactivity - chart showing trend over the last 15 years
If you're looking for a discussion topic for returning Economics students over the next few days then try using the chart below on economic inactivity in the UK (2005-2019).
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20 Feb 2020
Will Boris Johnson’s immigration reforms work?
The excellent Jonathan Portes with a summary here of the government's proposed immigration reforms.
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20 Feb 2020
Sustainable Sanitation and Water Services in Nairobi
This World Bank clip looks at the importance of sustainable water and sanitation to improved developmental outcomes.
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17 Feb 2020
Join us for Essential A-Level Economics 2020 - the CPD Courses for Non-Specialist or Inexperienced Economics Teachers
Booking is now live for Essential A-Level Economics 2020 - our two days of CPD designed specifically for non-specialist or inexperienced teachers of A-Level Economics.
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14 Feb 2020
Economics Weekly Quiz 14 February 2020
Here's this week's economics news quiz. Good luck!
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13 Feb 2020
Why do big government projects cost so much?
Here is a fascinating insight into why government projects are so frequently over-budget.
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13 Feb 2020
Asda and Greggs announce shop-in-shop partnership
Another strand of the rapid growth of Greggs emerges here with news of a trial concession partnership with Asda.
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12 Feb 2020
Apps proliferate but do they actually lift productivity?
The idea that apps can make major changes to the behaviour of individuals is something of a pipe dream. New technology is often being applied when it is simply not needed.
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11 Feb 2020
Where do wind turbine blades go to die?
It sounds like the build-up to the sort of very poor joke only economists could love: where do wind turbine blades go to die?
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10 Feb 2020
Uber's losses extent beyond $1 billion - is there a path to profit?
A little of bit of an Economics/Business mash-up. Uber has made a loss of $1.1bn - yes, that's right - a loss. So how can the company stay in business?
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9 Feb 2020
Rising obesity as a barrier to development
An interesting World Bank clip looking at the global prevalence of obesity, not least in low and middle-income countries, and the implications of this for development.
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8 Feb 2020
Did Apple slow down their old iPhones?
Really interesting regulation story here emanating from France, where the authorities have fined Apple for not providing consumers with information that they 'slowed down' old iPhones.
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8 Feb 2020
Number of UK workers living in poverty rises for third straight year
The latest Joseph Rowntree Foundation report makes for grim reading: more than one in five people in the UK live in poverty.
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6 Feb 2020
Fuel from faeces - Kenyan innovation to address deforestation
Recycling of the first order, the circular economy, environmentally-friendly, health enhancing, and developmentally beneficial. A Kenyan social enterprise Sanivation is producing fuel out of faeces...
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6 Feb 2020
Contestable Markets: The Battle for Dominance in Cloud Gaming
Who said this today? "When you talk about Nintendo and Sony, we have a tonne of respect for them, but we see Amazon and Google as the main competitors going forward"
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4 Feb 2020
New Economic Thinking: Inequality - The Bigger Picture
What can be done to address global poverty and inequality? Arjun Jayadev and Branko Milanovic discuss possible policy solutions to inequality, including opening borders and raising taxes on capital...
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4 Feb 2020
New Economic Thinking: What is happening to Inequality Now?
In the 4th lecture in a series of 5, Branko Milanovic continues his exploration of global inequality into the contemporary neoliberal era.
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4 Feb 2020
New Economic Thinking: Inequality - What is Happening?
In the third lecture in a series of five, Branko Milanovic explores how the industrial revolution created widening inequality between different countries.
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4 Feb 2020
New Economic Thinking: How Do We Measure Inequality?
Here is the second lecture in the series of five on the economics of inequality. Arjun Jayadev explains the relative merits of different ways of measuring inequality.
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