Blog and updates
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30 Sept 2016
Quantitative Easing - BBC Briefing Room
A good resource for students and teachers. In this episode of the BBC radio 4 series, The Briefing Room (broadcast in September 2015), David Aaronovitch explores how QE works and examines the...
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30 Sept 2016
Britain must build more homes warns Nationwide
I suspect that this might be the gravest supply-side threat for the British economy going forward. The issue is that we aren't building houses for a variety of reasons - planning legislation and...
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30 Sept 2016
Behavioral Economics of Pro-Social Plastic Bag Tax
Which works best, the carrot or the stick? In this short interview one of our favourite behavioural economists Joe Gladstone, Assistant Professor at University College London, discusses the plastic...
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30 Sept 2016
Artificial Intelligence and the Future
This really is superb enrichment stuff for students and their teachers!
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30 Sept 2016
Spotify in talks to acquire SoundCloud
Spotify needs scale and a broader range of users - will a bid for the German-based business SoundCloud make good commercial sense in the increasingly contestable global market for digitally...
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29 Sept 2016
New series of resources from the Bank of England - The Knowledge Bank
Our friends at the Bank of England have been working hard at devising and presenting a new series of interactive resources on their website called The Knowledge Base. They have a set of information...
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28 Sept 2016
China in 2031 - A Look into the Future!
Here is a presentation in Prezi format from some of my Year 13 students who won an internal competition dissecting projections for the Chinese economy over the next fifteen years. I have also...
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28 Sept 2016
Chinese peer to peer losses mount
Another interesting insight into the financial sector in China. Because of state-control of the financial sector, the interest rates charged to commercial borrowers (largely SOEs) are lower than...
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28 Sept 2016
Sainsbury takes on Amazon with 1 hour delivery service
An example of how competition in the grocery sector is changing: Sainsbury's have launched Chop Chop with staff on bikes looking to delivery groceries within an hour in south-west London.
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28 Sept 2016
Turbulence in Chinese Property Markets
Karishma Vaswani raises in this article from the BBC the prospect of current trends in Chniese property markets being indicative of a dangerous 'bubble' and the implications of this for the wider...
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28 Sept 2016
A Level Economics Strong Foundations Workshops - Session Content for 2016/17
We're delighted to confirm the session content for our upcoming A Level Economics Strong Foundations workshops later this term.
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27 Sept 2016
Over-educated grads are bad news for economic theory!
An exciting time of the year for many young people, with some setting off to university for the first time, and others starting to polish their applications for next year. Good news if you...
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26 Sept 2016
Top 10 Universities in the UK for Economics
One common question from students at this time of year is about recommendations for which university they should apply for. Students, of course, should think about many factors including proximity...
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25 Sept 2016
Who wins in a cashless society?
Essential listening I think for students taking financial economics as part of their A level and looking at the functions of money in a modern system. Linda Yueh presents a special programme via...
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25 Sept 2016
Argentina returns to the world capital markets
The Argentinian economy is struggling with double-digit inflation and stagnant real economic growth. The currency remains prone to devaluation (increasing the cost of essential imports) and the...
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25 Sept 2016
Is the world suffering a curse of cash?
Harvard economist Ken Rogoff has a new book out called The Curse of Cash. In his view, the world is awash with cash and it’s making us poorer and less safe. Would we be better off in a world...
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25 Sept 2016
The falling £ and the circular flow
A positive effect of Brexit as lower exchange rates have encouraged foreigners to spend more in post-Brexit Britain, at the same time that our tourists cut spending overseas. It is not a dramatic...
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25 Sept 2016
Handle with care! A great behavioural nudge
Handle with care! A bike manufacturer wanted to drastically lower the number of shipments arriving to customers damaged because of mis-handling. Their insight was to remind themselves that...
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22 Sept 2016
Free A Level Economics CPD Webinars
We are pleased to announce details of the first in a series of free A Level Economics CPD Webinars.
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21 Sept 2016
Top Ten Jobs for Bonuses in the UK
The bonus culture in some industries is a constant source of discussion but which jobs typically pay the highest average annual bonuses to their workers? It won't come as a surprise to find banking...
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