Blog and updates
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2 Apr 2015
Building the Entrepreneurial State
A brilliant new paper from economist Mariana Mazzucato explores a mission-based approach to building the entrepreneurial state.
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1 Apr 2015
Amazon's Dash Button - Dynamic Efficiency at Work?
This is not an April Fool's hoax! Amazon has launched the Dash button to help people automate their shopping using the internet of things. Prime customers are being encouraged to use the new button...
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1 Apr 2015
Why is room service so expensive?
Room service and taking items from the mini bar are just about the two more surefire ways of adding hugely to your hotel bill when accounts come to be settled.
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1 Apr 2015
Why price deflation in the UK in 2015 is likely to be temporary
The annual rate of consumer price inflation in the UK has dropped to zero per cent and many are forecasting that we will experience a bout of price deflation in the months ahead. But how likely is...
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1 Apr 2015
Why crime is falling
Economic statistics are the bane of forecasters' lives. Cynics might say that this is because the data reveal how bad their predictions are. But a big practical problem is that initial estimates of...
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1 Apr 2015
Zero inflation is the new normal
Zero inflation is trending. The consumer price index in the UK was at the same level in February as it was a year earlier.
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1 Apr 2015
Tuition Fees and Applications for Degrees - New Evidence
Increases in tuition fees have a negative effect on university applications, particularly for courses with lower expected salaries after graduation. The number of students attending university also...
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1 Apr 2015
Would Norway benefit from being inside the European Union?
Norway would clearly benefit from membership of the European Union (EU), according to new research by Nauro Campos and colleagues presented at the Royal Economic Society's 2015 annual conference.
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1 Apr 2015
A2 Macroeconomics Concepts: Can You Distinguish Between...?
Here are thirty examples of where a student might want / need to make a distinction between different A2 macroeconomics concepts. How many can you get right?
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31 Mar 2015
Financing the UK current account deficit
You should already know that the UK has a large current account deficit. Despite a falling UK £, UK export performance has been disappointing. A current account deficit has to be paid for with a...
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31 Mar 2015
LSE Summer Lectures
The summer 2015 programme for public lectures at the LSE has been launched.
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31 Mar 2015
Trade treaties and multinational company power
Do trade pacts threaten democracy? A recent article and broadcast on the BBC News website about growing opposition to treaties such as the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership...
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30 Mar 2015
Government regulation: minimum wage and the homecare industry
It is a sad fact that many of us will need to call on the assistance of Homecare workers at some time, to help us to provide care for sick or elderly relatives who are living at home rather than in...
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30 Mar 2015
Lower inequality leads to faster economic growth claims new research
Lower inequality is strongly correlated with faster and more durable growth, according to research by Charalambos Tsangarides and colleagues, presented at the Royal Economic Society's 2015 annual...
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30 Mar 2015
Geographical immobility of the low skilled workforce
UK university graduates are more than twice as likely to move region compared with non-graduates.
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29 Mar 2015
Economic Development in Rwanda - China Invests in Textile Manufacture
This video from the FT takes us to Rwanda to learn more about the fledgling textile manufacturing sector which is being partly backed by Chinese investment.
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29 Mar 2015
Graphene: effective supply side policy
We have been talking about supply side policies a lot, at the AS and A2 Macro Revision Conferences around the country for the last week or so. The objectives of those policies is to boost the level...
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27 Mar 2015
Recent changes to UK labour migration policy
Drawing on a summary provided by the UK Parliament Research body, here are some of the key changes to UK labour migration policy in recent years:
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27 Mar 2015
Cocoa futures war
A really useful short video from the Financial Times on the emergence of new futures markets in cocoa
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25 Mar 2015
Case for HS2 not fully made argues Lords Report
At a cost of £50bn HS2 will be one of the most expensive infrastructure projects ever undertaken in the UK. The House of Lords Economic Select Committee argues that the Government have not yet made...
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