Blog and updates
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7 Sept 2016
The economics super tutor who makes $1 million a year
A short clip that might be used when teaching aspects of labour market economics!
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7 Sept 2016
China and Africa: Partnering for Growth
This World Bank looks at the vexed relationship between China and Africa highlighting the mutually beneficial nature of the relationship, both in China and Ethiopia.
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7 Sept 2016
Beyond GDP? Welfare across Countries and Time
Two economists at Stanford University in the USA have published a new paper in the American Economic Review surveying an alternative to GDP per capita as a benchmark for economic welfare.
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7 Sept 2016
Import Substitution - The Fish Farmers of the Gaza Strip
The fish farmers of Gaza are a resilient group - hamstrung by intermittent electricity supplies and heavily dependent (for the moment) on imports of fish food and eggs from Israel.
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7 Sept 2016
China's economic re-balancing explored in 6 key charts
The IMF blog focuses here on the evidence that China is already well down the pathway towards a re-balancing of their economy in order to improve the quality of their growth and make their...
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7 Sept 2016
China's export machine increases their global market share
This article is a reminder of the dynamic nature of comparative advantage and the signs already becoming apparent of the subtle but important shift in emphasis in Chinese trade policy away from...
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7 Sept 2016
Will there be a 'watering down' of the National Living Wage?
This year's Year 2 students looking at wage determination as part of their Labour Economics sessions are well to be reminded that the UK uses a 'National Living Wage' title rather than 'Minimum...
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7 Sept 2016
Why the IMF makes England football managers look like world-beaters
Sports fans will all be familiar with the commentator who almost always gets things wrong. “Arsenal are very much on top here” he – it is invariably a ‘he’ – will pronounce, or “Root is looking...
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6 Sept 2016
Is Morrisons positioning itself as a deep discounter?
Morrisons have promised to slash food prices over over 150 items - reported here in the Guardian. This isn't what traditional oligopoly theory would suggest is likely to happen but then again the...
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6 Sept 2016
Bayer bids $65bn to win control of Monsanto
One of the summer's biggest merger stories: Bayer's offer for Monsanto. The former has raised its offer in the hope of completing a merger to create a giant global agribusiness. What type of merger...
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6 Sept 2016
Working Poverty - 3 Jobs and still Poor
An interesting look here at poverty in Port Talbot - in the context of Brexit. It stands as a example of highly localised poverty and its causes, examined by a Joseph Rowntree Foundation report.
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5 Sept 2016
The Prisoner's Dilemma Explained in One Minute
If you've never heard about game theory before or have but are not all that confident you've fully understood the concept, this prisoner's dilemma video is worth watching.
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5 Sept 2016
The Psychology of Money
In this video of a talk given recently at the RSA in London, the BBC Radio 4 broadcaster Claudia Hammond explores the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, biology and behavioral economics
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5 Sept 2016
Working Poverty and Youth Unemployment
Over 150 million younger workers in emerging and developing countries are suffering from working poverty - in other words they have work but it does not pay enough to lift them out of poverty -...
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5 Sept 2016
While you were away - Quick multi-choice quiz on the UK economy over the summer
Here's a quick, 6 question multi-choice quiz about UK economic events over the summer as a fun introduction to your new-term classes. The questions are on a Powerpoint file and meant to be screened...
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5 Sept 2016
BBC Newsnight interview with Joseph Stiglitz - a Year 2 homework exercise
Our Year 2 students are returning this week and, after a few weeks of (some) sun and relaxation, they are no doubt chomping at the bit to get ready for the challenges ahead this academic year. The...
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5 Sept 2016
Join Us for A Level Economics CPD During September 2016!
We've got a packed programme of resource-intensive CPD courses for A Level Economics teaching colleagues during September 2016.
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3 Sept 2016
IB Diploma Economics - Course Companions for 2017
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of four new digital Course Companions to support teachers and students preparing for IB Economics in 2016/17.
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3 Sept 2016
Introducing the tutor2u IB Economics Student Group
Are you studying IB Economics? Would you like additional support and encouragement as you prepare for IB Economics exams and during your course? This new IB Economics student group on FB is for you.
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2 Sept 2016
Harnessing FDI in Africa
Professor John Sutton from the London School of Economics discusses how African countries can attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and why it's crucial for creating jobs. Professor Sutton has...
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