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4 Jul 2019
Economics Teacher Survey 2019
Win £200 of tutor2u Economics resources for your school or college by adding your opinions to the 2019 Economics Teacher Survey.
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2 Jul 2019
Distracted Goalkeeper (Uber Media Campaign)
A great example of how to think in different ways to get people to consider the social costs of using a mobile phone when driving.
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1 Jul 2019
The Tampon Book : A Book against Tax Discrimination
Thinking counter-intuitively - this ingenious advertising campaign by-passed a German law which taxed tampons at 17 percent and prompted fresh political pressure to reform.
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21 Jun 2019
Sweden leads the 2019 EU Innovation Rankings
The bulk of economic growth in advanced countries comes from generating, testing, introducing and applying commercially ideas at the cutting edge. Here is an interesting ranking on the supply-side...
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21 Jun 2019
Scottish alcohol sales drop after minimum price intervention
New data finds that there has been a 3% decrease in alcohol consumption such that Scottish alcohol sales are at their lowest in 25 years. Is this - in part - the result of the introduction of a...
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21 Jun 2019
Progress in reducing open defecation
Achieving universal access to basic sanitation is one of the critical Sustainable Development Goals. A new report from the UN finds that nearly 700 million people globally are denied toilet...
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21 Jun 2019
Demographics: Tracking declining working age populations
Working age populations are in decline among several member countries of the OECD. The infographic below highlights the steepness of the decline for Japan and Italy in particular.
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21 Jun 2019
LSE Economics Society Essay Competition 2019
Here are details of the 2019 LSE Economics Society essay competition for A Level students. The closing date for entries is the 1st of August.
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21 Jun 2019
Sorry we Missed You - Ken Loach's new film on the Gig Economy
Ken Loach's new film "Sorry we Missed You" is s searing follow-up to the much-acclaimed "I Daniel Blake" and focuses on the lives and work of families in the Gig Economy in the North East of...
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21 Jun 2019
40 years after Thatcher - 3 Videos on the Changing UK Economy
BBC Newsnight has produced three special videos to mark the 40th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher becoming Prime Minister. Is the UK economy on the verge of another historic sea-change moment?
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19 Jun 2019
An oil price spike could accelerate decarbonisation
The tanker attacks in the Gulf of Oman have raised fears of a sharp increase in the price of oil. These are currently being offset by worries about a slowdown in the world economy and a drop in the...
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18 Jun 2019
The Adidas factory making shoes out of plastic bottles
Plastic waste is clearly a major issue, but this BBC video clip highlights an Indian factory that is making shoes and clothes out of polyester reclaimed from plastic bottles.
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18 Jun 2019
The price of plenty - how beef changed America
Economic gold - and a great way to pass half an hour. The Guardian's audio long read about the impact of the beef industry on the US, and how it's changed is one for the cognoscenti but it's a...
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18 Jun 2019
Is it time to end our fixation with GDP and growth?
Richard Partington's briefing article on GDP and economic growth in the Guardian is a great read and terrific enrichment for students wanting to understand more about the debate over measuring...
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15 Jun 2019
De-constructing the Laffer Curve and Trickle-down Economics
Here is a great opinion piece from Morris Pearl in the Guardian on trickle-down economics, echoing J.K.Galbraith's view that the very notion is flawed. His analogy was that trickle-down economics...
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15 Jun 2019
Natural Capital: The Wealth of a Wetland
Here is a World Bank clip looking at the importance of wetlands to sustainable development in Uganda, and tangentially the issue of how we measure development itself. It is also clear that there...
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13 Jun 2019
Why the rental economy may herald the demise of manufacturing
Revolutionary technologies can take decades for their full impact to become clear. The internet may now be heralding the demise of many manufacturing companies.
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9 Jun 2019
A-Level Economics Strong Foundations Workshops for 2019/20
Dates and locations for the A-Level Economics Strong Foundations exam workshops in 2019/20 are now available.
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