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24 Sept 2015
Exposure to the Chinese Slowdown
This FT video looks at the three important ways that nations are exposed to a Chinese slowdown - the banking, investment and trade ties that bind.
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24 Sept 2015
UK Steelmakers seek government help
The Guardian on the steelmakers plea for government support: I bring you the final sentence: "Gareth Stace, director of UK Steel, said: 'If the sector is to continue its vital role supplying the...
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23 Sept 2015
How do you deal with someone who thinks the Earth is flat?
Imagine you are relaxing at a bar enjoying a drink after a hard day’s work. The person next to you strikes up a conversation. Initially he seems reasonable. But soon he begins to go on at length...
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23 Sept 2015
Don't panic - how to end poverty!
Tune into BBC 2 this evening at 8pm to catch the superb Hans Rosling present "Don't panic - how to end poverty". If you haven't seen his programme from 2013 entitled "Don't panic - the truth about...
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23 Sept 2015
National Go Home on Time day
Apparently September 23rd is National Go Home on Time day, part of National Work Life Week, according to the group Working Families.
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23 Sept 2015
How the sharing economy is sweeping the world
The phenomenon of 'collaborative consumption' - where you rent things for limited time periods - is becoming increasingly popular. This Telegraph article looks at the extent to which it is...
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23 Sept 2015
Price Discrimination by WH Smith
The Dewsbury Reporter doesn't often make it into the Economics Blog, but a hat-tip to Matt Smith for spotting this excellent example of price discrimination (or price gouging) by WH Smith in...
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23 Sept 2015
The Volkswagen Scandal
This excellent Channel 4 clip looks at the breaking scandal surrounding Volkswagen - and considers how the brand has been tarnished by it faking emissions testing results in the US. Amusingly,...
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23 Sept 2015
The trolley problem and ethics of driverless cars
A superb five minute video from David Grossman that aired on BBC Newsnight about some of the ethical issues connected to the rise of autonomous vehicles (or driverless cars). He recreates the...
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23 Sept 2015
How discounters are beating the supermarkets
Just a classic market to study - grocery retailing - and in this instance it's the discounters who are winning. You might think that this is surprising given that all the data suggests that the...
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23 Sept 2015
Teaching PowerPoints for A Level Economics
Our collections of brand new teaching PowerPoints for the new AQA, Edexcel and OCR Year 1 (AS) teaching content are now all complete and ready to use.
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23 Sept 2015
Investing In Britain: What Does China Own?
This is an excellent background piece from Sky News on the scale and scope of Chinese foreign direct investment in the British economy - from ports to airports to water companies and nowthe...
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22 Sept 2015
The Irish potato famine - classic demand and supply
I found this iWonder piece on the Irish famine from the BBC both fascinating and thought-provoking.
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22 Sept 2015
State of Play in the UK Jobs Market
This is an interesting magazine-style look at the current state of play in the UK labour market written by Chris Lawton of Nottingham Business School. In it, he drills down into the data, to look...
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22 Sept 2015
Mergers and Acquisitions in the UK Gambling Industry
This article summarises the frenzy of mergers in the UK gambling sector - Ladbrokes and Gala Coral, Betfair and Paddy Power and GVC and Bwin.party.
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22 Sept 2015
More on the UK Productivity Puzzle
Persistently slow growth of productivity in the UK economy in the last few years has major implications for competitiveness and ultimately for living standards and jobs. This FT discussion looks at...
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21 Sept 2015
What is Money
This entry curates some teaching and learning content on the important question of what is money?
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21 Sept 2015
Ratcheting Up the Renewables Ratio
In the run-up to the Paris Climate Change Conference at the end of the year, expect many more of this sort of article. It's not that there's a vested interest here, because there is but the scheme...
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21 Sept 2015
Topical Economics Quiz - 'Stay A Head'!
Here's an interactive Powerpoint quiz on current news events in worldwide economics (from the week beginning 14 September 2015) to test whether your students have been actively following the...
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21 Sept 2015
China's huge changes
This interactive graphic from the BBC is, I think, one of the most useful graphics I have seen in terms of mapping the huge changes that the Chinese economy has undergone in the past couple of...
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