Blog and updates
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14 Nov 2017
Competition and Markets Authority - "Concentration" Activity
It has been announced today that the Competition and Markets Authority have agreed, in principle, to allow the takeover of wholesaler Booker by the retail giant Tesco. Although agreeing in...
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13 Nov 2017
Parents 'nudged' in economics experiment
At a recent school Open Morning, several economics A Level students here at Headington conducted an economics experiment. Armed with a clipboard and pen, the girls tested whether prospective...
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13 Nov 2017
Co-op buys Nisa for £143m
Rapid consolidation in the UK convenience store sector has continued apace with news that NISA shopkeepers have voted to agree a takeover from the Co-op.
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13 Nov 2017
The Autumn Budget 2017 - prepare for the Budget with "The Double Agent" activity
Here's a resource that may be useful to you as a 10-15 minute activity over the next couple of weeks preparing new Economics students for the upcoming Budget. In 'The Double Agent' you have 3...
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12 Nov 2017
Vodafone in east Africa - elite rent-seeking exposed
Ethics and MNCs - This Observer investigation into the rise of Vodafone in east Africa has done an awful lot to benefit the political elite and commensurately less for the ordinary citizen. It...
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12 Nov 2017
Brazil’s contaminated river Doce
A short video revealing the long term economic and social damage from the contamination of a river following the bursting of an iron ore waste dam burst in the town of Mariana, Brazil.
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10 Nov 2017
Economics Weekly News Quiz - 10 November 2017
Here's this week's economics news quiz. Good luck!
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10 Nov 2017
A living diagram
I promised my students that before their exam today I would try and grow an Economics diagram....
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9 Nov 2017
Money for Nothing? Economics of Robots and Basic Income
More than ten million UK workers are at risk of having their jobs replaced by robots in the next decade. Could a universal basic income be a radical but effective approach in the face of...
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8 Nov 2017
What is your economics superhero name?
Courtesy of this tweet from Jon Inge I can confirm my name is Supernormal Surplus! What is your economics superhero name?
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7 Nov 2017
UK House Prices and Living Standards - "A-maze-balls" activity
According to the Halifax, house prices continue to rise in the UK (4.5% on average in the year till October) and will carry on doing so in the near future. The value of houses are an important...
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6 Nov 2017
Diesel car sales fall by almost one third
There's been a precipitous decline in sales of diesel cars, of nearly a third, putting pressure on the car industry and, according to the article "the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders...
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6 Nov 2017
Tax Avoidance - try this 'Reach the Peak' activity
So, tax avoidance is back in the news with the ongoing investigations surrounding the 'Paradise Papers'. Economics students will know the difference between tax evasion (which is illegal) and tax...
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6 Nov 2017
Supply side economics - how to shift the PPF
New economics students are probably familiar by now with the Economic Problem, the four Factors of Production, and the PPF, and the concept that in order to increase potential output, you need to...
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6 Nov 2017
China's Zombie Business Privatisation Policy
This clip is fascinating documenting how one Chinese province, Liaoning, has started to privatise 'zombie' companies in the hope of returning them to profitability, rather than continuing to prop...
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5 Nov 2017
The Broken Phillips Curve and Missing Pay Rises
Really interesting conceptual article about the conduct of monetary policy in the UK, with Larry Elliott arguing that the setting of interest rates is predicated upon a broken economic model, which...
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4 Nov 2017
Ten Things We've Learned from from Edexcel Economics CPD (Updated)
Here is some feedback that is worth bearing in mind when teaching Edexcel Economics drawing on reports from recent Edexcel events looking back at the 2017 exam series.
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3 Nov 2017
Economics Weekly Quiz - 3 November 2017
Here's this week's news quiz on the world of economics. Good luck!
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3 Nov 2017
Mr Proud's homemade Phillips Machine
What a fantastic achievement from Charles Proud at the Perse School in Cambridge. He has engineered and completed his own Phillips Machine!
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2 Nov 2017
Why the Bank of England has raised interest rates
Inevitably there has been a deluge of media coverage of the first base rate rise for a decade - albeit a tiny step! Here is our curation of some of the best articles.
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