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Enrichment
Efficiency and Collecting Panini Football Stickers
At the moment I'm in the middle of trying to complete the latest Panini football sticker album; I’m also reading Philip Roscoe’s book "I Spend, Therefore I Am". So exactly what have these got to do...
What can the iPhone tell us about China's Trade?
In this short video, Professor Miaojie Yu (Peking University) explains how China's openness to processing trade - such as putting together iPhones to export around the world - has been responsible...
Social Norms - HIV Testing and Risky Sexual Behaviour
The 2016 Austin Robinson Memorial Prize was awarded jointly to Pedro Gomes (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) and Erick Gong (Middlebury College) at the Royal Economic Society's 2016 Conference....
Education and the Mafia - An Offer you can't Refuse!
Giovanni Mastrobuoni (University of Essex) and Ferdinando Guigliano (La Repubblica) talk about the new economic research showing that mafia criminals have more to gain from education than most...
EconoFun is taking off!
We are really pleased to hear of the success of the EconoFun product developed and nurtured by Serena Patel.
Marshall Society Essay Competition (Cambridge)
The Marshall Society, the economics society of the University of Cambridge, is pleased to announce the opening of its annual essay competition. This is an opportunity for all students currently...
Positive Externalities from Diversity
Andy Haldane, chief economist at the Bank of England, hit the headlines last week with his confession that even he could not understand much of the material which pension providers give to...
The Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism (CSEP) has launched their inaugural essay competition which is open to students studying at AS-Level or equivalent.
Can a city function without Public Goods?
What happens when a city is managed almost completely by private corporations?
Innovative Monopolist vs Defensive Monopolists: Monopoly Power in the United Arab Emirates
We often champion monopolies for their dynamically efficient behaviour, and how they contribute to long run static efficiencies through their invention and innovation made affordable by high profits.
A History of Money in Five Objects
This is a lovely clip showing the nature of money over the centuries and perhaps provoking thought about the nature of money
70th Anniversary of the death of John Maynard Keynes
On this day (21st April) in 1946 John Maynard Keynes, often credited as the father of modern macroeconomics, passed away. Some of our main resources on Keynesian economics can be found here
Fantasy Economics for AS and A2 students!
Are you are a creative literature type who’s stumbled into economics? Here's a way to enliven your interest with novels that illustrate the key theory behind dry concepts such as monetary policy...
Behavioural Economics and Economic Thinking
In this article I explain how behavioural economics relates to orthodox thinking. In 2002 Daniel Kahneman was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work in behavioural economics. His Thinking, Fast and...
Unlikely Events - Lessons for Economists from Art and Sport
Life imitates art, as the sporting world has shown this week. The Grand National was won by a horse which had never previously won a steeplechase. The US golf Masters was won by Danny Willett, who...
Banks and steel: thorny problems in economic theory
The potential closure of the Tata steel plants, and the plight of Port Talbot is a tragedy for those directly affected. A key question is: if the banks could be saved, why not steel? From a purely...
A Brief History of Industrial Revolutions
Oxford Economist Ian Goldin on how a new nervous system of information of 5 billion connected people will define our time - all fascinating stuff at whatever stage of the life cycle we have reached!
Lord Mervyn King on The End of Alchemy
In this talk at Google HQ in London, the former governor of the Bank of England discusses the differences between engineering and economics and much else besides!
If you enjoy your economic history then this 40 minute talk by the eminent Professor Nick Crafts will float your boat! Speaking at the 2016 Warwick Economics Summit, he discusses some of the policy...
A-Z of Economists Useful for Impressing in your A2 Economics
I've inevitably had to leave some economists out of this listing but I hope this resource proves useful. Just type their name into Google to search for more on the work.