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15 Feb 2024
In the News Teaching Activity – will the government’s latest dental policies get to the root of the NHS dentist shortage problem? (Feb 2024)
The UK’s dental health has been deteriorating as many people cannot find an NHS dentist nor afford to go private. With an election looming, the main political parties are competing to find the best...
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13 Feb 2024
Monopsony Power - Supermarket giants hit farmers who want early payment with hefty fees
It seems that Australian supermarket giants, Coles and Woolworths, are exploiting a monopsony position to levy rebate charges on farmers who want early payment for their produce, raising concerns...
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12 Feb 2024
In the News Teaching Activity – the UK’s unemployment rate may be lower than the statistics suggest (Feb 2024)
The Office of National Statistics has been concerned about how accurate its measurement of unemployment has been recently. Poor measurement has implications for economic policymaking.
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10 Feb 2024
Uber makes first annual operating profit
This is a seismic event: Uber has, at last turned a profit. Last year's $1.8 billion operating loss has become a $1.1 billion operating profit after 14 years in operation since it was founded in...
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10 Feb 2024
What has happened to the UK economy?
The Resolution Foundation has published new research assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the UK economy. This short YouTube clip provides a timely summary of their work.
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10 Feb 2024
Externalities - Dealing with the Mountain of Waste on Everest
This Business Insider clip looks at the negative externalities of waste on Mount Everest, where there's a massive issue, which is difficult to tackle at high altitudes. It looks at how one...
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9 Feb 2024
World's first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit
The EU's Climate Service has highlighted the fact that the 2015 pledge to limit long-term temperature increases to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels is already under threat and that there's need for...
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9 Feb 2024
Economics Weekly Quiz | 09 February 2024
Here's our weekly economics news quiz covering stories from the UK and global economic events of the passed 7 days.
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9 Feb 2024
Sainsbury’s reveals plans to use more robots
The robots are coming! This article highlights how Sainsbury's are contemplating job cuts, and substituting capital in favour of labour, by increasing the number of automated tills, warehouse...
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8 Feb 2024
Edexcel A-Level Economics - Theme 3 Knowledge Organiser Pack
Here is our full knowledge organiser pack for Theme 3 for Edexcel A-Level Economics (A). It covers all of the business economics, labour market economics and government intervention topics in the...
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8 Feb 2024
In the News Teaching Activity – Paris votes to increase the parking fees for SUVs to reduce pollution (Feb 2024)
Following the banning e-scooters in Paris, the Mayor of Paris has led a successful vote to increase parking fees for SUVs in central Paris to reduce pollution in the centre of the city.
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7 Feb 2024
Poverty and Inequality - UK’s poorest have borne brunt of cost of living crisis
Proof here of the unequal distributional effects of the pandemic, with the NIESR reporting that the poorest won't see their living standards recover to pre-pandemic levels until 2027.
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6 Feb 2024
Ireland's Productivity Miracle - Real or Artificial?
This is a ToK-style article looking at the fact that Ireland is seemingly the most productive country in the world, and yet people wonder whether this is actually 'true' or not?
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6 Feb 2024
Is ill-health holding back the UK economy?
The 5th of February is apparently the day that's become known as "national sickie day" but the Guardia have used it to flag up the increased rate of long-term sickness that appears to be holding...
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5 Feb 2024
Scotland to raise the minimum alcohol price by 30%
Has Scotland's minimum alcohol pricing policy worked? The minimum price of alcohol in Scotland is set to rise by 30% to 65p per unit, making a bottle of whisky at least £18.20 in an attempt to...
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5 Feb 2024
Paris Votes to Triple Car Parking Charges for SUVs
An extra intervention to address the externalties from traffic congestion. Citizens in Paris have voted to triple car parking charges for SUVs and it will be interesting to see the impact on demand.
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5 Feb 2024
In the News Teaching Activity – the implementation of post-Brexit non-tariff barriers to trade to increase business costs (Jan 2024)
The government has implemented the much-delayed, new post-Brexit customs controls, such health checks for food and flowers for goods entering the UK from the EU at the end of January.
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2 Feb 2024
Economics News Shorts (28 January -2 February 2024)
Here are the links to our Economics in the News shorts for this week.
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2 Feb 2024
Economics Weekly Quiz | 02 February 2024
Here's our weekly economics news quiz covering stories from the UK and global economic events of the passed 7 days.
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1 Feb 2024
Is the UK's inflation target fit for purpose?
Here is an excellent article in the Guardian with a Canadian academic, Louis-Philippe Rochon highlighting the arbitrary nature of the 2% inflation target. Remarkably, nearly 60 countries have...
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