Blog and updates
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22 Feb 2015
Practice Data Response Unemployment and Inflation
Suggested answers to a practice data response question on unemployment and inflation (AS Macro)
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22 Feb 2015
Election 2015- Economic data and Joyflation
There is a very useful article written by Douglas Fraser of BBC Scotland on the key economic issues pertinent to the next election.
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22 Feb 2015
Social costs and Tesco’s retreat
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22 Feb 2015
Deaths from air pollution
This World Bank report cites evidence that several million people each year might be dying from illnesses directly related to air pollution.
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19 Feb 2015
Is there a New March of the Makers in the USA?
In this article from the BBC, Linda Yueh considers some of the factors driving a recovery in manufacturing output, investment and jobs in the United States.
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19 Feb 2015
Balancing out Good and Bad Deflation
Mark Carney says that a period of low inflation – even deflation – propelled by falling oil prices would be "unambiguously good" for the economy. How do we reconcile this with the textbook position...
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18 Feb 2015
Centre for Cities- database and economy resources
Centre for Cities is an independent organisation that conducts research on change in city life and economy. It has a great website that will be of real use to economics teachers.
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18 Feb 2015
The Nationwide House Price Premier League
The Champion's League and the Premier League are hotting up as the soccer season moves full-steam into the final stanza. No one knows for sure who will claim the prizes at the end of this campaign
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18 Feb 2015
What is Game Theory?
Game theory is the mathematical study of decision-making, of conflict and strategy in social situations.
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18 Feb 2015
Lithuania's Brain Drain
This BBC news article looks at the de-population of Euro Area country Lithuania. According to the piece, "In the 25 years since the fall of Communism, Lithuania has lost one in five of its...
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18 Feb 2015
Unemployment falls as UK labour market expands
Fresh evidence today of the growing strength of the UK labour market in recent months
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18 Feb 2015
Crocodile tears for the poor
INEQUALITY is now a buzzword in Britain. Scarcely a week goes by without a new publication by an academic or journalist lamenting the levels of poverty facing swathes of the population. They are...
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18 Feb 2015
Growing fast and growing slow - an anatomy of economic growth
Andy Haldane, Chief Economist at the Bank of England has recently given a superb speech on the dynamic of economic growth.
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17 Feb 2015
Plain packaging for cigarettes
In January 2015, the UK government announced that the it had decided to bring forward the legislation for standardised packaging of cigarette packets before the end of this Parliament. A vote is...
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17 Feb 2015
Recent examples of corporate takeovers and mergers
This will be a regularly curated list of mergers and takeovers involving well-known businesses. We hope it will help students to find examples of acquisitions that can be explore and used in...
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16 Feb 2015
Snapchat Visits Ent Soc!
It was a thrill last week for my students who run Entrepreneurship Society to host a meeting with Evan Spiegel, the founder and CEO of messaging app Snapchat.
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16 Feb 2015
Dani Rodrik - Globalisation - the trade-offs
Dani Rodrik introduces 'The Globalisation Trilemma'. It shows how economics is a science of trade-offs - and the we can have too much globalisation
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16 Feb 2015
Joseph Stiglitz - Financial crisis as market failure
Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz tells how the financial crisis of 2008 was a perfect storm of market failure.
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16 Feb 2015
Fishing for perfect competition
In the early 1990s Kathryn Grady of Brandeis University went in search of prefect competition at Fulton Fish Market in downtown New York - what she found was quite different.
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16 Feb 2015
You can't outsource responsibility
Richard Freeman of Harvard University and the National Bureau of Economic Research argues that while you can outsource production, you cannot outsource responsibility.
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