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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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27 Dec 2018
UK Plastic bag charge set to be doubled to 10p
Externalities and government intervention in action. The UK government DEFRA is consulting on plans to increase the price of smaller plastic bags to 10 pence in a bid to tackle plastic pollution...
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27 Dec 2018
Demography: Japan's birthrate falls to lowest level in history
Japan's population is decline and ageing at a rapid rate. New data shows that the natural decline in their population was nearly 500,000 in 2018 with fewer than one million babies born for the...
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27 Dec 2018
Professor Guy Standing on the Precariat and Universal Basic Income
Guy Standing is credited with coining "the precariat" to describe people in work that offers uncertain pay, hours and overall job insecurity. In this short interview at the Warwick Economic Summit...
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24 Dec 2018
Is the UK crisp industry heading for a Brexit crunch?
Ed Conway from Sky News visits Kettles crisps (owned by Campbell Soup Company) to find out more about the UK's love affair with the crisp and concerns that some production may move overseas if...
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23 Dec 2018
The Cumulative Loss of Real Wages since 2008
Real wages are nominal wages adjusted for the effects of inflation. A new survey form the Trade Union Congress (TUC) has estimated that the average worker in the UK has (cumulatively) lost over...
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21 Dec 2018
Externalities: Air pollution is the new tobacco
This WHO clip looks at the impact of air pollution on the health of the world's children. It is estimated that 1.8 billion children breathe polluted air, equivalent to 9 out of 10 of the world's...
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21 Dec 2018
Chief Medical Officer calls for extended sugar and salt bans
The country's Chief Medical Officer, Dame Sally Davies, wants a ban on adding sugar to baby food, and further taxes to cut the nation's salt and sugar intake. However, the real meat to the report...
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20 Dec 2018
Picturenomics
Over the past few weeks I've sporadically taken photos to use in lessons with the intention of them stimulating a discussion. Each photo relates to a number of different topics that we have studied...
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14 Dec 2018
Economics Weekly Quiz - 14 December 2018
Here's the last weekly Economics Quiz for 2018. Good luck!
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13 Dec 2018
Behavioural nudges: Barclays introduces spending block app
Here is a behavioural nudge from Barclays that might just be a game-changer in introducing frictions into the spending choices that people make.
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