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29 Jul 2015
Royal Mail in the dock over delivery charges
The recently privatised Royal Mail has breached competition law according to industry regulator Ofcom through discriminatory delivery charges imposed on rival business Whistl (formerly known as TNT...
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29 Jul 2015
Revenue growth as an objective for Twitter
Twitter has a mission statement to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers but their Founder and interim CEO Jack Dorsey has been remarkably...
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29 Jul 2015
Banks and the Principal Agent Problem
The activities of the House of Lords are very much in the news at the moment. But the members do carry out serious work, not least on the economic affairs committee. Last week, Lord Green, former...
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26 Jul 2015
Summer 2015 Oxbridge Economics Reading and Videos
In this blog I am curating a selection of articles recommended for Oxbridge economics - feel free to contact me with other suggestions and I will add them to the listing!
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25 Jul 2015
Chocolate consumption by country
Chocolate lovers can be forgiven for being in an perpetual state of confusion about the health effects of their devotion to the cocoa bean. One week they are told that nailing their favourite bar...
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25 Jul 2015
Major trade deal to cut tariffs on digital products
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has announced a landmark IT trade deal, which it is hoped will eliminate import tariffs on a wide range of digital products within the next three years.
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25 Jul 2015
Where next for the IMF?
The BBC World Service programme "In the Balance" regularly provides content of tremendous relevance to teachers and students. I recommend you have a look at their home page to find plenty of...
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25 Jul 2015
Firms risk eating themselves argues BoE Economist
The Bank of England's Chief Economist Andy Haldane has hit out at historically high rates of dividend payouts and share buy-back programmes by highly profitable stock-market listed businesses. He...
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23 Jul 2015
Overseas Aid and Development Debate
How effective is overseas aid in promoting and sustaining growth and development in poorer countries? This is a huge ongoing debate in development economics. Our Storify draws on different...
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23 Jul 2015
China struggles to limit environmental impact of growth
This is a really excellent article on the sustainability challenges facing China.
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23 Jul 2015
Post-China 16 Countries
The Post-China16 (PC16) is a term used for a group of countries that are widely expected to partially replace China as the low-unit cost manufacturing hub for the global economy in the years to...
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21 Jul 2015
Why cricket is like spam
The holiday season gets into full swing, but a shadow has been cast by the abysmal failure of our boys to get anywhere near the enormous target of 509 which Australia set them to win in the second...
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20 Jul 2015
IKEA to pay UK workers the Living Wage
Ikea has announced that it will pay all its 9,000 UK workers at least £7.85 an hour from April 2016. The rate for employees in London will be £9.15 an hour. It is estimated that half of their...
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19 Jul 2015
Evaluating Economic Reforms in Greece
A new paper written by Campos and Coricelli finds evidence that the Greek economy has suffered from poorly implemented structure economic reforms both before and after the economic and financial...
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17 Jul 2015
Has Africa Outgrown Development Aid?
BBC Africa ran a debate on aid assistance to Africa broadcast from the British Library. Ideal enrichment for A2 macro.
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17 Jul 2015
Magna Carta and the Bank of England - Carney on Interest Rates
Here is a link to the speech given by Bank of England Governor Mark Carney at Lincoln Cathedral in July 2015. In it he said that policy interest rates are likely to start rising again from their...
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16 Jul 2015
65 Million Subscribers for Netflix
In the increasingly contestable market for online streaming of movies, tv series and other forms of entertainment, the drive to grow your installed user base is right up at the top of the objective...
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16 Jul 2015
The Depth of the Greek Economic Depression
This article from the BBC news considers a range of macroeconomic indicators for the beleaguered Greek economy. "It is now generally agreed that Greece has experienced an economic crisis on the...
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16 Jul 2015
Natural resource booms and local communities
The macroeconomic impact of a boom in natural resource extraction for developing countries has been thoroughly researched in recent years giving rise to an ongoing debate about whether natural...
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16 Jul 2015
Amazon - A Business Built to Make Losses?
I really enjoyed reading an article on Amazon from Rory Cellan-Jones, the Technology Correspondent at the BBC. In a telling quote he says "Throughout its history, Amazon has seen its revenues climb...
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