Blog and updates
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7 Aug 2018
Transport Gaps and Barriers to Finding Work
A new and important report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds that people in low-income neighbourhoods are willing to travel to work but find commuting options constrained by unaffordable or...
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7 Aug 2018
Poverty’s Impact on Well-being
A recent (BBC) Panorama programme focused on the chasm in years of healthy life expectancy within regions of the UK. It makes for difficult viewing but raises really important issues for public...
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6 Aug 2018
Economics with Subtitles - How Buying Cocaine Helps the Government
Here is the first of a series of four new economics podcasts from the BBC. Economics with Subtitles is your everyday guide to economics and why you should care. Click here.
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4 Aug 2018
Learning Macroeconomics On A Roller Coaster
In the company of Paul Krugman, Stephen Colbert asks some searching macroeconomic questions!
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3 Aug 2018
Amazon tax avoidance debate surfaces yet again
The issue of the amount of tax that Amazon pays is a vexed one. Profits have risen in the UK, but Amazon UK are paying less tax to the Treasury - how can this happen?
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2 Aug 2018
Join the Teacher Judging Panel for the RES Economics Essay Competition 2018
Economics teachers in the UK are invited to apply to join the Teacher Judging Panel for the RES Economics Essay Competition 2018. Judging will take place on Monday 3rd of September at the Holiday...
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1 Aug 2018
Yorkshire Day - the economy of the County of Yorkshire
Here's a bit of fun to celebrate Yorkshire Day on the 1st of August. Today is the day that the nation celebrates all things wonderful about the county of Yorkshire.
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1 Aug 2018
Long Read: Travelling along Highway BR-163
Travelling along highway BR-163, this is a remarkable story of powerful agro-food multinationals, the battle against illegal deforestation and mining, communities attempting to build resilience and...
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27 Jul 2018
Trade Wars: 250 Years of Economic Theory About Tariffs
In this piece for the Harvard Business Review, Linda Yueh argues that "the greatest economists in history would be wary of imposing import taxes to address a trade imbalance."
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27 Jul 2018
Long Read: Do companies have too much monopoly power?
A new paper from Princeton economist Jan De Loecker finds that the mark ups (profit margins) of the world's largest global companies has been increasing raising fresh concerns about the impact on...
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24 Jul 2018
Economic Benefits from Regulation
Many students are taught and/or implicitly assume that deregulation is a supply-side policy designed to unleash innovation, drive market entry and stimulate growth. In this piece for Project...
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23 Jul 2018
Are disposable BBQs fuelling deforestation?
The provenance of products is increasingly important for consumers - consider for example growing demand for fish caught from sustainable sources. But what about the origin of the charcoal in your...
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23 Jul 2018
Growing number of working homeless
Take a moment to consider what the term 'working homeless" means in the context of Britain in 2018. These are people with a job, often full-time but on well below median earnings. According to a...
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21 Jul 2018
Long Read: Al Roth on Market Design
Here is an interviewwith the Nobel Prize winner Al Roth from Stanford who discusses the importance of market design and some of the ethical issues surrounding "repugnant markets."
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19 Jul 2018
Google fined €4.3bn for reducing consumer choice
Yesterday’s ruling from the European Commission that will result in Google receiving a record-breaking fine of €4.3bn for unfair practices is an absolute goldmine of a case study for students...
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18 Jul 2018
How migrant networks can stimulate trade
Following the 1994 lifting of US trade sanctions against Vietnam, the share of US exports going to its former enemy was higher and more diversified in states with larger populations of Vietnamese...
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18 Jul 2018
Lessons from the Gulf for migration policies in OECD countries
At a time when fights over migration are dividing rich countries and fracturing their politics, a study published in the Economic Journal sheds light on a ‘path not taken’.
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18 Jul 2018
Impact of remittances on growth and poverty
The recent surge in remittances from migrant workers to their native countries may be overestimated, according to research by Michael Clemens and David McKenzie, published in the Economic Journal.
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17 Jul 2018
The Economic Benefits of Clustering
Here is a superb article on the growth of the life sciences and agricultural technologies industries in and around Cambridge - a tremendous example to use of the benefits of agglomeration...
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