Blog and updates
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11 Jun 2016
Debts and Deficits
Since the financial crisis, government debt in the UK has been increasing and is likely to do so for some time. A couple of great articles here that will give you all you need to know about debts...
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10 Jun 2016
Beyond the Bike Lesson Resource: Economic Forecasting
To support the Beyond the Bike blog post this week from Stuart, here's a chunky resource on the highs and lows of economic forecasting with application to China and the likelihood of their economy...
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9 Jun 2016
The Economics of Pocket Money and the Gender Gap
The latest Annual Halifax Pocket Money Survey has been released and it’s a great way to review lots of areas in Economics – the full press release can be read here:
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9 Jun 2016
Negative interest rates defy gravity
Here is a cartoon explainer on why official interest rates are now negative in a quarter of the global economy without causing, so far, massive cash withdrawals.
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9 Jun 2016
Do Uber drivers earn less than minimum wage?
For a data driven business, Uber is notably reluctant to nail down hard figures for the percentage of their 30,000 drivers who are earning less than the statutory minimum wage or who have driven...
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9 Jun 2016
The OCR F585 Playlist!
We have put together five special webinars covering the extracts for the OCR F585 exam and they are all on one playlist on our YouTube channel.
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9 Jun 2016
Contestable Markets - Amazon Launches Supermarket Deliveries
Although initially limited to 67 postcodes in central and east London, the launch of a same-day delivery service for fresh groceries by Amazon has the potential be yet another factor shaking up...
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7 Jun 2016
Macro models - the weakest link in Economics
David Cameron has tried to frame the Brexit debate into one based on economics. Standing with him is the overwhelming consensus of economists themselves, from academics to the...
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6 Jun 2016
The Swiss said 'No' but could the UK have a Universal Basic Income in the future?
Just days after Switzerland had a referendum on the introduction of a Universal Basic Income (and rejected the idea), Labour's John McDonnell is starting to consider such a scheme, backed by...
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4 Jun 2016
Growth and Prosperity in Africa: What's Worked, and What's Next?
Here is a short video from the Legatum Institute covering the launch of the 2016 African Prosperity Report. With a decade of strong growth in Africa now at its close, where has that growth most...
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3 Jun 2016
The Good Country Index - another way to compare international progress?
The new specifications in A Level Economics challenges students to think a little more laterally about what is meant by economic progress and growth. While measuring GDP remains significant, an...
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2 Jun 2016
Efficiency and Collecting Panini Football Stickers
At the moment I'm in the middle of trying to complete the latest Panini football sticker album; I’m also reading Philip Roscoe’s book "I Spend, Therefore I Am". So exactly what have these got to do...
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2 Jun 2016
UK industries most exposed to Brexit
A focused two minute video from the Financial Times explaining which are the British sectors that are likely to feel the greatest impact from a Brexit and how.
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2 Jun 2016
Explaining the Australian Immigration Points System
This is a handy explainer from the Financial Times - it looks at how the Australian immigration points system works.
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2 Jun 2016
Revision Advice for OCR F585
Here are some summary slides offering advice for students as they prepare for OCR F585
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2 Jun 2016
Can cutting public spending expand the economy?
Martin Feldstein of Harvard is an economist who should always be taken seriously. Writing in 1997 about the forthcoming introduction of the Euro, for example, he said “the adverse economic effects...
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31 May 2016
Intervention in Markets - Will the legal highs ban work?
A ban on the sale of legal highs has come into force in England. But will be ban be effective? Or does it risk creating even greater harm.
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31 May 2016
What can the iPhone tell us about China's Trade?
In this short video, Professor Miaojie Yu (Peking University) explains how China's openness to processing trade - such as putting together iPhones to export around the world - has been responsible...
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31 May 2016
Social Norms - HIV Testing and Risky Sexual Behaviour
The 2016 Austin Robinson Memorial Prize was awarded jointly to Pedro Gomes (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) and Erick Gong (Middlebury College) at the Royal Economic Society's 2016 Conference....
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31 May 2016
Education and the Mafia - An Offer you can't Refuse!
Giovanni Mastrobuoni (University of Essex) and Ferdinando Guigliano (La Repubblica) talk about the new economic research showing that mafia criminals have more to gain from education than most...
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