Blog and updates
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2 Mar 2016
Brighton's Smart Sugar Initiative
Brighton claims to be the first city to have launched a 'war on sugar' and this Channel 4 News clip looks at how the city has started to tackle the issue of information in the food industry....
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1 Mar 2016
Japan issues a 10 year government bond with a negative yield
The Japanese bond market had an historic day on Tuesday, selling 10-year bonds at a negative rate or yield. The news was the front page headline in the Financial Times. It seems that the negative...
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1 Mar 2016
Chinese attack on zombie firms could jobs millions of job losses
Mass lay-offs of workers in zombie companies and in industries with chronic excess capacity might have been the preferred adjustment policy for China in the past, but economic and social conditions...
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1 Mar 2016
Lego targets Asia and Africa to sustain rapid growth
The family-owned toy maker Lego has reinforced their position as the world's biggest toy maker and now they are focused on expanding in Asia and also (eventually) in Africa. At present, 80% of...
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1 Mar 2016
Uneven economic growth in UK cities
Here's an interesting report (in both a short and long version) that you may like to share with your students if you are looking for analysis on inequality and uneven economic growth within the...
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29 Feb 2016
Innovation in the Collective Brain
A new paper from academics at the London School of Economics seeks to dispel the myth of the heroic grand inventor. Cultural variance and tolerance of diverse ideas together with the size of...
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29 Feb 2016
The Global Economy in 2016
Here's the news before it happens, in the Economist's 30 minute overview of what to expect in the global economy in 2016.
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29 Feb 2016
Money in the modern economy
This introductory video from the Bank of England provides a useful introduction to the concept of money and its purpose in a modern, market economy.
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29 Feb 2016
Amazon and Morrisons strike deal - non-price competition in the supermarket market
Reports out today say that supermarket giant Morrisons (4th largest supermarket chain in UK) has struck a deal with Amazon, allowing for the delivery of some of its products using the Amazon Prime...
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28 Feb 2016
Five Minutes with Robert Shiller
The eminent Yale economist and Nobel Winner Robert Shiller faces five minutes of questions
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28 Feb 2016
UK household income and inequality: where do you fit in?
This new interactive graphic from the Office of National Statistics allows you to find out where your household / family fits in the distribution of income in the UK.
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28 Feb 2016
Central banks in a Prisoner's Dilemma according to ex BoE Governor
The former Governor of the Bank of England has a new book to sell so headlines linked to serialisation of his page-turner about the imminent risk of another financial crisis are perhaps to be...
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28 Feb 2016
Why we need a 21st century view of how the economy works
This extended article from the Evanomics website is a superb enrichment piece for ambitious Year 12 and Year 13 students. The piece is written by Nick Hanauer is an entrepreneur and venture...
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27 Feb 2016
Mercedes-Benz swaps robots for people
Mercedes are altering the nature of their production line - moving away from maximising automation in favour of nimbler robots working alongside human employees. The aim is to reduce production...
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27 Feb 2016
Invisible Hand in a Perfectly Competitive World
A nice little animation that illustrates the market mechanism in a perfectly and imperfectly competitive world.
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26 Feb 2016
Beyond the Bike Lesson Resource - dictators and their economic legacy
Following on from Stuart's earlier blog post about benign dictatorships, I've put together a simple lesson resource using the "speed dating" approach that is a firm favourite here at tutor2u. This...
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26 Feb 2016
Should BT be broken up to stimulate competition?
The Communications regulator Ofcom has told BT that they have to allow competitors to use their telegraph poles and cable ducts more easily than they currently do in order to improve the overall...
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26 Feb 2016
The Economics of Brexit - Interviews from the NIESR Debate
If Britain leaves the EU, what next for the economy? The National Institute of Economic and Social Research recently held a debate on many of the issues and our friends at Econ Films were there to...
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26 Feb 2016
Game Theory and Cameron's EU Deal
The Brussels deal: would Cameron have done better if he had gone to Cambridge?
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25 Feb 2016
Market Failure and Akerlof’s Lemons
One of the key factors to cause a market to fail is a lack of information. George Akerlof was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his work on the second hand car market. He observed how...
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