Blog and updates
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15 Oct 2018
Royal Economic Society Essay Competition 2018 - Winners Announced
The winners of the Royal Economic Society (RES) Essay Competition for 2018 have just been announced.
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14 Oct 2018
World Bank launches new human capital index
The World Bank has launched a new developmental index designed to measure the extent to which economies invest in health and education, so as to make the most of their human capital. It is hoped...
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12 Oct 2018
Recommended Enrichment Reading for Students Applying to Read Economics or Management at University
UCAS applications and interviews are coming up. But, what should students be reading if they want to study Management at University when there isn't a Management A-Level? And what are the Economics...
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5 Oct 2018
Amazon increases their US minimum wage to $15 an hour
Amazon is one of the largest employers in the USA and the big news this week is that the company is raising pay for its workers domestically and in the UK. US-based workers will get a new minimum...
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5 Oct 2018
Water scarcity - innovation to save water in the global laundry industry
The fundamental economic problem: scarcity and choice, via an interesting example. In instance, South Africa's drought and subsequent water shortage forced one laundry entrepreneur to seek an...
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5 Oct 2018
How to Fuel the Future
This fantastic Economist clip looks at the state of the global energy sector, highlighting the importance of oil and the challenges facing the global economy in this regard.
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5 Oct 2018
Euro 30 per tonne for carbon - enough to avert catastrophic climate change?
An interesting opinion piece in today's Guardian arguing that there should be a far higher global carbon price to avoid apocalyptic rises in temperature.
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28 Sept 2018
Economics Weekly Quiz - 28 September 2018
Here's this week's Economics Quiz. Good luck!
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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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