Should BT Open Reach be nationalised?
The Labour Party have pledged to provide free broadband for all by nationalising the digital arm of BT - Open Reach - and in doing so, hopefully act as a supply-side measure lifting productivity.
Low unemployment and longer hours
Larry Elliott's latest article is a real tour de force, looking at the ongoing conundrum of the UK labour market.
Economics Weekly Quiz w/e 15 November 2019
Here's this week's economics news quiz. Good luck!
Contestable Markets: Google to offer banking current accounts
News here that suggests 'the Four' are looking to enter the banking market, with Google set to offer current accounts, and Facebook, Amazon and Apple already offering financial products, such as...
Is India approaching a US-style financial crisis?
This is an important story to keep ahead of. India's financial sector looks especially fragile at the moment with runs on banks as depositor confidence collapses and fears that financial contagion...
Why are Japan and Korea in a trade war
The economic relationship between South Korea and Japan has soured and, whilst many are focused on the fall out from the Chinese/US trade war, this trade dispute between Japan and South Korea is...
Building resilience to overcome external shocks
The World Bank clip looks at how developing resilience in your economy is an essential part of overcoming shocks. In this case, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are recovering from civil war and...
Chinese government rations pork and sets maximum prices
There's an ongoing problem in Chinese agriculture - African swine fever has decimated the country.
CrossRail delayed until 2021 as costs overrun
More supply-side problems laid bare here with the news that Crossrail is going to be both further delayed and cost nearly £700m more than the current estimate.
Economics Weekly Quiz w/e 8 November 2019
After a week's break for half term, here's this week's economics news quiz. Good luck!
Google Acquires Fitbit
This is one of those mergers that I find hard to classify - is it a form of vertical integration, with Google becoming more customer facing, or is it akin to a conglomerate merger, as Google looks...
Econoween
The folks at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University have made a number of economics themed pumpkin carving kits available!
Regulatory Capture: Fossil fuel companies spend Euro 250m on lobbying
The extent to which the fossil fuel industry is able to lobby supra-national institutions is laid bare in this articlelooking at the amount spent, both by individual firms and industry groups, in...
Economics Weekly Quiz w/e 25 October 2019
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The state of the UK economy (Oct 2019) - an 'Elevator Quiz' activity
If you have been covering macroeconomic objectives during this first half term of this academic year, you might like to use this cracking 5 question multi-choice Powerpoint quiz on the state of the...
Xiaomi dominating India's smartphone market
Theme 3 Micro meets Theme 4 macro! This is a fascinating article that looks at how Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has become the market leader in the Indian smartphone market.
What future for the IMF and the World Bank?
The Guardian argues here that international financial organisations such as the IMf and the World Bank need a reboot, with a shift of emphasis away from their current neoliberal agenda and in...
Economics Weekly Quiz 18 October 2019
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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...