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Enrichment
Wonderful footage of Keynes discussing the Gold Standard!
Bob Denham and his team at Econ Films have tweeted wonderful footage of Keynes speaking about the decision to leave the Gold Standard!
Development Podcast, a new flagship series from the World Bank
The World Bank development team is launching a new podcast this week which looks ideal for students and teachers searching for enrichment materials.
A World Without Work (Daniel Susskind)
The Oxford Martin School was packed for a talk tonight by Balliol College Fellow Daniel Susskind on his new book “A World Without Work”.
What Happens When Economics Doesn’t Reflect the Real World?
A superb short talk on real competition and markets and the actual behaviour of agents.
Finance & Financial Crises (Ha-Joon Chang)
In this lecture in INET’s “Economics For People” series, Ha-Joon Chang explains finance and financial crises.
Why Are Some Countries Rich and Others Poor? (Ha-Joon Chang)
In this lecture in INET’s “Economics For People” series, Ha-Joon Chang looks at international inequality.
What Is Wrong With Globalisation? (Ha Joon Chang)
In this lecture in INET’s new “Economics For People” series, Professor Ha-Joon Chang from the University of Cambridge explains the backlash to globalisation.
Martin Wolf's economics reading list
How to reach a bliss point in fifteen minutes! Martin Wolf makes a persuasive case for saying that 2019 has been a vintage year for some quite superb new published work in economics.
Reasons to be cheerful about the 2019 Economics Nobel Winners
This year’s Nobel Prize in economics, announced on Monday, was a ray of sunshine amidst the prevailing media gloom. The award was made for the work of the new Laureates on the alleviation of global...
Banerjee, Duflo and Kremer win the 2019 Economics Nobel
We are delighted that the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics has been jointly awarded to Esther Duflo (only the second female recipient) along with Michael Kremer and Abhijit Banerjee for their...
Discover Economics campaign launches this week!
This is a hugely important campaign for the future of our great subject. Please disseminate widely if you can.
Have factories made the lives of workers better?
Here is Tim Harford's short piece on The Factory - in series two of fifty things that made the modern economy. Factories are changing and scaling to almost unprecedented sizes. But the increase in...
What the company of the future might look like
The Big Read in the Financial Times today is a superb piece by Andrew Hill on the limits of the pursuit of profit. In this very accessible and clear video, he talks through some of the main themes...
Student essay: Will Uber ever be profitable?
Year 12 student Max Ghose has written this superb introductory micro essay on Uber.
How we make pencils
Get those pencils ready to pick out a huge amount of microeconomics in this brilliant 4 minute clip from Faber-Castell which produces 2.3 billion pencils a year and has been in business for over...
Energy economics: The long history of solar power
The latest episode in the 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy series with Tim Harford looks at solar panels, and their impact on the modern economy. Excellent enrichment as always! I've added...
The man who helped feed the world
This entry in the 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy series looks at the almost inestimable benefits of the work of Nobel Prize winner, Norman Borlaug, in developing disease-resistant wheat and...
Marshall Society Economics Essay Competition 2019
The Marshall Society, the economics society of the University of Cambridge, is excited to launch its 2019 essay competition. The deadline for essay submissions is 11:59pm 11th August 2019.
Danny Dorey-Rodriguez has written this superb reflection on the work of Professor Cesar Hidalgo from MIT who has contributed greatly to our understanding of how crystallised information and...
Basic Income and Universal Basic Services - free access to a live debate on possible policies for the UK's social security system
The team at Promoting Economic Pluralism are hosting an event in London next week debating the relative merits of Basic Income and Universal Basic Services. It looks potentially useful for teaching...