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10 Sept 2015
EU lesson resources
Based on this week's Beyond the Bike adventures from the City of London and into Europe, here are three lesson ideas, complete with resources that are ready-to-use in classrooms.
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10 Sept 2015
Beyond the Bike - a journey to the heart of the EU from London
This week Stuart and Claire cycled through France and Belgium and into the Netherlands. This is Stuart's blog post exploring whether Britain should stay in or leave the EU. You can see the original...
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10 Sept 2015
Peston on the Rising UK Trade Deficit
His holiness, Robert Peston responds to the disappointing July trade figures that were released today: the trade deficit is rising, manufacturing output has stalled and the only thing that is...
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10 Sept 2015
UK Oil and Gas Sector Sheds Thousands of Jobs
Oil and Gas UK have reported that there's been a precipitous decline in employment in the UK oil industry - and this could have a had a negative multiplier effect, not least on the Scottish...
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9 Sept 2015
Unboxing marathons to boost demand
Last week, Disney hosted an 18 hour "unboxing marathon" of Star Wars toys on YouTube. Unboxing is a new approach to marketing which involves unwrapping, unboxing, assembling and then demonstrating...
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9 Sept 2015
Coffee Snobs who Refuse to Drink Instant!
An early example here of income elasticity of demand here as the Telegraph reports on the decline in the demand for instant coffee and a corresponding increase in the demand for ground coffee and...
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9 Sept 2015
Whitbread to pay the Living Wage
Whitbread has announced that it is opting to pay the living wage for their employees but that some of the extra cost will be passed onto consumers through higher prices for some of the products....
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9 Sept 2015
China's Impossible Trinity
This is a high level piece of A level economics especially relevant for Upper Sixth (A2) students.
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9 Sept 2015
Where does the UK's overseas aid go?
The debate over the scale and substance of the UK's humanitarian support for displaced refugees from the Syrian crisis has focused attention on how the UK spends their annual aid budget. The UK...
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9 Sept 2015
Can Apple Continue to Grow Like a Start-Up?
In this short video, Daniel Garrahan from the Financial Times looks back at how Apple.Inc has been transformed over the past 20 years. Can the rapid growth be maintained or will Apple be affected...
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8 Sept 2015
Economics and Politics - a classic combination
A little bit like Mel and Sue on Great British Bake Off, Economics and Politics really complement each other nicely.
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8 Sept 2015
How often does a banknote change hands?
I really like this super analysis from the Guardian's data bloggers, based on research from OnStride Financial, in which they use the Quantity Theory of Money to calculate the "velocity of...
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8 Sept 2015
Short Survey on Using Videos to Teach Economics
How can video help economists communicate with a wider audience? Should videos be 5 minutes - or shorter or longer? Should they include graphics or documentary footage? The truth is, no one knows....
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8 Sept 2015
Falling living standards for jobseekers
This article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34151666 looks at one of the more obvious costs of unemployment for the individual worker - the loss of income. by 2020, the Joseph Rowntree...
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8 Sept 2015
Chinese businesses winning contracts on the new Silk Road
The new Silk Road is a hugely important development in the context of China's growing economic and financial influence in the world economy.
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8 Sept 2015
Divestment - Tesco off loads South Korean stores for £4.2 billion
Tesco is in a hurry to reduce their debt pile and avoid a costly share rights issue to raise fresh finance. The giant UK retailer is going through turbulent times. Their market share in the UK...
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8 Sept 2015
Gender pay gap driving UK inequality
More evidence here of the interlinked nature of an economy: the causes of inequality are complex - the gender pay gap and a lack of access to education being the major causes according to the World...
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7 Sept 2015
Preventing sunburn by changing habits
This info-packed piece from the BBC is full of great behavioural economics insights into how we can reduce the number of people getting sunburnt.
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5 Sept 2015
Amazon's Costly Fire Phone Flop
Stick to selling things rather than making them. That might be the message for Jeff Bezos and his team at Amazon after they decided to abandon their attempt to enter the increasingly contestable...
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5 Sept 2015
Kicking the Habit - Smoking Rates Increasing in 40 Countries
The UK, US and Australia have had much success in lowering rates of smoking. However, smoking rates in other countries remain stubbornly high and in around 40 countries are actually rising!This...
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