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20 Jan 2019
Can butchers survive the vegan boom?
Another look at changing consumer tastes, and their impact on the High Street. This time, it's butchers under the cosh as vegetarianism becomes increasingly popular and just a short while after the...
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18 Jan 2019
Climate change battle requires international cooperation
Here is a neat application of game theory at the margin, and certainly the economics of co-operation.
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18 Jan 2019
Economics Weekly Quiz - 18 January 2019
Here's this week's Economics news quiz. Good luck!
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16 Jan 2019
Uber introduces 15p per mile "clean air fee"
Uber is adding a clean air fee of 15p per mile to every trip taken in London. The current per mile fare is £1.25. The aim of the clean air fee is to help raise up to £200 million to support Uber...
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16 Jan 2019
Car alliances are the future in an age of technological disruption
Larry Elliott's excellent article about the reasons for carmakers struggling, is developed here - with the news that Ford and VW are planning not a merger, but an alliance to exploit new technology...
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15 Jan 2019
How Gregg's vegan sausage roll stormed social media
This is both economic - you might look at consumer choice, and the impact of marketing on price elasticity of demand, and Business Management, indicating the importance of skilled marketing. The...
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15 Jan 2019
Visible from Space: The World’s Largest Solar Power Plant
Look at the size of that solar park 36 kilometres squared in Egypt's Aswan desert, a private sector venture that will provide as much electricity as the Aswan Dam, remarkable. Renewable power meets...
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15 Jan 2019
How does Brexit affect the Pound?
An entry level piece about the nature of currency prices, and how Brexit has affected the value of the pound - a really good little introduction to this topic, which gets you thinking about the...
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13 Jan 2019
Inside China's Future Factory
Bloomberg Business visits Shenzhen the heart of China's tech revolution - a superb nine-minute video guaranteed to stimulate classroom discussion from a growth and development perspective. We meet...
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12 Jan 2019
Introducing the AQA A-Level Economics Diagram Practice Book
Great news for all AQA A-Level Economics students! There is now a comprehensive printed workbook that provides diagram practice for all the core microeconomics and macroeconomics concepts.
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11 Jan 2019
Economics Weekly Quiz - 11 January 2019
Happy New Year, quizzers. Here's this week's Economics news quiz. Good luck!
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10 Jan 2019
Cows, parmesan and the future of money
The Bank of England has a new blog resource here on the history and the future of money - excellent enrichment reading for students and teachers looking the functions of money and developments in...
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9 Jan 2019
Win £500! ERC's annual Clash of the Titans economic forecasting competition offers cash prizes
It's not very often that students get the chance to win some money from using their economic knowledge but the Economics Research Council are offering £500 to the winner of the annual Clash of the...
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8 Jan 2019
3 million new social homes needed over 20 years
A commitment to increasing social house-building could have significant effects on both the demand and supply-side of the economy. Housing affordability is one of the defining issues of the age....
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30 Dec 2018
Sneakernomics
This BBC News article offers copious business and economics gold dust! The global athletic footwear market size was valued at $64.30 billion in 2017 and the industry supplying shoes has...
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29 Dec 2018
Taking renewable energy to the next level (2018 update)
We are likely to look back on 2018 as a year when many countries and regions of the world made further substantial progress in increasing renewable energy capacity and benefitting from economies of...
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28 Dec 2018
50 Things That Made the Modern Economy
Tim Harford's epic series on 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy is now availably indefinitely through BBC Sounds. Naturally it makes great sense to follow Tim on Twitter
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28 Dec 2018
Doing Business in the Great Disruption
In this contribution to a Project Syndicate 2019 special edition on the Great Disruption, ING Chief Economist Mark Cliffe argues that "multinationals should start behaving more like multi-locals" -...
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28 Dec 2018
Why Multinationals Love Some Places, but Ignore Others
A great short overview here from researchers at the London School of Economics of some of the economic factors that cause multinational corporations to favour some countries over others when making...
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27 Dec 2018
2018 in economics: from market turmoil, to trade war and Brexit
Martin Sandhu from the Financial Times casts his eye over some of the major economics news stories in different parts of the global economy. The realities of Brexit have consumed much of the...
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