Blog and updates
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15 Oct 2015
The Eurozone: a tale of two halves
Olivier Blanchard, the recently retired Head of Economics at the International Monetary Fund, has something of a track record with his predictions. In 2013, he warned George Osborne that he was...
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15 Oct 2015
A Lession resource: Using bicycles to promote economic development
The second lesson resource this week focuses on the role that ownership, or at least shared ownership, of bicycles can play in causing rising economic growth and development in LDCs. There is...
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15 Oct 2015
Beyond the Bike - lesson resource on development in landlocked countries
Earlier this week, Stuart and Claire travelled down the coastline of Tanzania by ferry. Transport and logistics are much easier when countries have a coastline - but what is the impact on countries...
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15 Oct 2015
Capital-labour substitution at Ford
The Ford Motor Company has recently spent £1.7bn on upgrading its largest European plant in Valencia, Spain with the latest robotics and hi-tech engineering.
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15 Oct 2015
Costing the Earth
This super interactive graphic and quiz from the BBC Earth team provides a neat starter to the topic of externalities.
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12 Oct 2015
Pollution externalities - haze in Indonesia
This is an ongoing interesting pan-Asian problem which highlights the negative externalities associated with forest fires and the international nature of the problem.
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12 Oct 2015
Dell agrees $67bn EMC Takeover
I'm trying to work out what type of merger this is - it's not horizontal - but is it vertical backwards integration? A move towards the source of supply. Either way a $67bn merger isn't a small deal.
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12 Oct 2015
Role of Organic Farming in Poverty Reduction
The Asian Development Bank provides a handy listing of factoids about the contribution that farming makes to many of the world's poorest countries and the potential that organic farming has in...
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12 Oct 2015
Remaining Government Stake in Royal Mail to be Sold
It is being reported that the government is going to complete the final part of its privatisation of Royal Mail - selling to professional investors, who will, no doubt, be hoping to repeat the...
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12 Oct 2015
Nudge - How Small Changes can make a Big Difference
This is pretty much the full version of the talk given at the RSA in London on the work of the behavioural insights team into how small nudges can change people's behaviour.
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12 Oct 2015
Angus Deaton wins the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics
Have I got news for you! The Scottish-born economist Angus Deaton has been awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics. His work over many years in improving our understanding of household...
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12 Oct 2015
Research on anti-dumping by WTO members
This is really useful contextual research from the economists at Deutsche Bank who have looked at the industries most likely to be the subject of anti-dumping claims in the world trading system.
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12 Oct 2015
The joy of the big revamped railway station
I like Gwyn Topham's articles - a broad overview of developments in rail transport - and this is no exception. The article looks at the raft of revamps of once-decrepit railways stations and the...
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12 Oct 2015
Kenya's growing thirst for coffee
This FT article highlights the upsurge in the demand for coffee in Kenya - there are lots of applications here: changing consumer tastes affecting demand, an awareness of the fact that the demand...
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12 Oct 2015
Tobacco tax increase is urged
A fairly bog standard subject - should tobacco taxes be higher? This article reporting on the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health suggests that it should and there's the added bonus...
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9 Oct 2015
Economics topical quiz - Eliminator style!
Here's this week's topical economics news quiz in the format of our ever-popular resource called 'The Eliminator'.There are 6 questions based upon Economic news stories from this week for you to...
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9 Oct 2015
The price of water for Peru's poorest
Those in deepest poverty in Peru pay way more for each litre of water than the rich. Extreme poverty is absent in Peru if the World Bank data is to be believed. The reality on the ground tells a...
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9 Oct 2015
New Version of Observatory of Economic Complexity
Happy days - the latest version of the Observatory of Economic Complexity is now available online and the world of economics teaching immediately becomes a brighter place! There is simple no better...
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8 Oct 2015
Metro Bank moves towards a £1bn Stockmarket Listing
With only 35 branches (concentrated in the south east of England) and over 530,000 customer accounts, Metro Bank is not exactly shaking the UK retail banking industry to its roots. But the...
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8 Oct 2015
Ending Peruvian Poverty
John Authers reports for the Financial Times from the World Bank meetings in Lima on how declining commodity prices are affecting the challenge of poverty reduction in countries such as Peru whose...
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