Blog and updates
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4 Sept 2015
What books would you recommend to your economics students?
I posed this question on twitter a couple of days ago and lots of teachers and graduating students got in touch with their suggestions. Here is a flavour of them. I'll happily add to the list if...
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4 Sept 2015
Buy It Now!
Most of us have used eBay, and I bet that the way we have used it has changed over time, as we don't bid as frequently in auctions and rely on the Buy It Now feature instead. This is a great...
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4 Sept 2015
How did China become a global superpower?
As A2 students start to return to their studies, now is a great time to grab their attention and move them on to considering the global element to their economics. This super iWonder storyboard...
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3 Sept 2015
Assumptions in Economics
If you’re starting Economics, you will perhaps be starting to think about some of the limitations of a social science. Unlike physicists, economists don’t have a laboratory in which they can...
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3 Sept 2015
Beyond the Bike - An Enrichment Project
Looking for something a bit different to engage and inspire your economics students this academic year? Why not follow the Beyond the Bike adventure of Stuart Block and Claire le Hur, and use our...
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3 Sept 2015
Hitachi opens train plant in County Durham
This is another boost to the economic fortunes of the North East. Hot on the heels of a new £100m investment in car manufacturing from Nissan, Hitachi have opened their train plant at Newton...
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3 Sept 2015
Scottish Minimum Price for Alcohol Faces Delay
This is a fascinating story, demonstrating the complexity of policymaking, and asking lots of evaluative questions, both of the Scottish government but also of economists. Read: Alcohol price plans...
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3 Sept 2015
British Housing Crisis Threatens Economic Growth
Vicky Pryce is a vastly experienced economist with a strong reputation for her work in competition policy. In this piece for the Guardian, Pryce returns to a familiar theme for students aware of...
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3 Sept 2015
Nissan invests £100m into the Sunderland plant
Important news for the North East economy. Nissan has announced a £100m investment in their car plant at Washington, Tyne and Wear which will safeguard thousands of jobs at the plant itself and...
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3 Sept 2015
Course Companions for Year 1 (AS) of the New A Level Economics
Geoff's superb Course Companions for the Year 1 (AS) teaching content of the new A Level Economics specifications are now completed.
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3 Sept 2015
Teacher PowerPoints for Year 1 (AS) of the New A Level Economics
Our range of topic PowerPoints for the Year 1 (AS) teaching content for the new A Level Economics specifications is now completed and available for immediate despatch to teaching colleagues.
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2 Sept 2015
Housing - Generation Rent is Out of Luck
In this piece from the Guardian, Home shortage and lending rules, Patrick Collinson identifies the real causes of higher UK house prices, higher rents and more exploitative behaviour within the...
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2 Sept 2015
Have we reached peak globalisation
Duncan Weldon BBC Newnight's Economics Editor is on fine form in this extended piece on threats to the process of globalisation. World trade in goods and services is now growing at the slowest pace...
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2 Sept 2015
Nudge Theory - how to stop people dropping litter?
I have been watching this short video today on litter left behind by skiers at a Swiss resort. It has coincided with a day when I have been curating a couple of resources on 'Nudge Theory' for our...
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2 Sept 2015
Steep Rise in Zero Hours Contracts in the UK
744,000 people were estimated to be working on zero hours contracts in the UK labour during the summer of 2015. 155,000 of these were categorised in 'Caring, Leisure And Other Service Occupations'...
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2 Sept 2015
How important is China to the UK economy?
The ONS has produced this excellent information piece on the growing importance of trade and investment with China for the UK. Highly recommended as background reading for students and teachers....
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2 Sept 2015
OCR Unit F585 Pre-Release Stimulus Material for 2016
The stimulus material for OCR A2 Economics Unit F585 2016 has now been released.You can download the material here.The popular tutor2u Unit F585 toolkit for the 2016 stimulus material can now be...
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1 Sept 2015
South Korea hit by Chinese slowdown
The Economist reports that exports account for roughly half of South Korea’s GDP—and a quarter of all those go to China. Little wonder that, for South Korea, the slowdown in the Chinese economy is...
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1 Sept 2015
Market Capitalisation of a Business
Market capitalization (often shortened to market cap) is a measurement of the value of the voting ownership interest that shareholders hold in a business enterprise. It is equal to the current...
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1 Sept 2015
Why are Economics textbooks so expensive?
This is a question asked by many thousands of students and teachers every year. For students at university, the annual cost of buying the recommended texts can be a sizeable percentage of their...
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