Blog and updates
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27 Sept 2018
Private sector debt will likely cause the next crisis
This month of course saw the 10th anniversary of the collapse of Lehmann Brothers, which precipitated one of the only two global financial crises of the past 150 years. The late 2000s and the early...
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26 Sept 2018
Intra-Regional Trade: A Challenge for South Asia
This World Bank clip looks at the relatively low level of intra-regional trade in South Asia and suggests that the countries of the region should be doing three times the trade that they currently...
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26 Sept 2018
Competitiveness - India as a smartphone powerhouse
This BBC clip looks at how the city of Noida, close to New Delhi, has seen 25 brands of smartphone located there. 30% of the world's smartphones are manufactured there. Why? In the first place,...
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25 Sept 2018
Why Vanilla Is So Expensive
The price of vanilla is soaring and it provides a superb mini case study in the impact of changes in the conditions of supply and demand. A recent article by David Pilling in the FT made the point...
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21 Sept 2018
Economics Weekly Quiz - 21 September 2018
Here's this week's Economics Quiz. Good luck!
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21 Sept 2018
Sky takeover bid to be settled by auction
The UK's Takeover Panel, in consultation with all interested parties is to determine the outcome of rival Sky bids via an auction.
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21 Sept 2018
Empowering women as a driving force for development
The IMF looks at why empowering women is a good thing for development: it's relatively simple. Women represent more than 50% of the potential workforce and increasing female education also reduces...
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21 Sept 2018
Identification for Development
This World Bank clip looks at the most fundamental property right of all: to an identity. The Identification for Development Program is trying to give the 1 billion people without proof of identity...
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21 Sept 2018
The Rise of Private Firefighters
Whoever says that fire services are a public good, or even a quasi-public good? In the United States, record breaking wildfires are fuelling - no pun intended - the rise of private firefighters....
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21 Sept 2018
The New Age of Capitalism
What a fantastic enrichment resource for students - David Grossman's The New Age of Capitalism is a series of ten fifteen minute podcasts.
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19 Sept 2018
Stepping back to 2008
This excellent programme was broadcast on Saturday night on BBC Radio 4 and traces events surrounding the causes of global financial crisis. It is made up of extracts from archive BBC material and...
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17 Sept 2018
History Repeating: The Financial Crisis 10 Years On
Adam Parsons from Sky News has this special report from New York, a decade on from the collapse of Lehman.
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14 Sept 2018
Economics Weekly Quiz - 14 September 2018
Here's the new academic year's first Economics Weekly Quiz. 10 multi-choice questions. Good luck!
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14 Sept 2018
Do free museums serve all social classes?
Free museum access is often depicted as something that might be classified as a quasi-public good, but this Newsnight clip debates whether or not that's the case.
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13 Sept 2018
Financial Crisis Explained: 4 Short FT Videos
Hats off to the Financial Times for producing this series of short videos discussing aspects of the global financial crisis. Superb for new students wanting to bring their historical knowledge up...
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12 Sept 2018
The Economics of Superstars
Rugby Union’s Premiership season is under way again. Yet another professional sport which operates on the principles of socialism: the money all ends up in the pockets of what we might call the...
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12 Sept 2018
CORE Schools Economics Challenge 2018
Here are details of a fantastic new challenge from the CORE Economics team in partnership with the Financial Times. The deadline for entries is the 1st of October.
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10 Sept 2018
Ireland as a tax haven for multinationals
US firms book more profits in Ireland than in China, Japan, Germany, France & Mexico combined according to a new paper on the tax havens and multinational activity published by Gabriel Zucman,...
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10 Sept 2018
Co-op joins the price war in the funeral industry
Increased competition in the funeral sector, with the Co-op looking to bury its rivals by offering cheaper funerals. The average price of a funeral is falling, with customers opting for no-frills...
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10 Sept 2018
Should the monopoly power of the tech titans be broken up?
Vince Cable argues here that the tech giants need to be broken up, arguing that their size is a threat to welfare. He argues that these companies represent new forms of monopoly, and are able to...
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