An oil price spike could accelerate decarbonisation
The tanker attacks in the Gulf of Oman have raised fears of a sharp increase in the price of oil. These are currently being offset by worries about a slowdown in the world economy and a drop in the...
The Adidas factory making shoes out of plastic bottles
Plastic waste is clearly a major issue, but this BBC video clip highlights an Indian factory that is making shoes and clothes out of polyester reclaimed from plastic bottles.
The price of plenty - how beef changed America
Economic gold - and a great way to pass half an hour. The Guardian's audio long read about the impact of the beef industry on the US, and how it's changed is one for the cognoscenti but it's a...
Is it time to end our fixation with GDP and growth?
Richard Partington's briefing article on GDP and economic growth in the Guardian is a great read and terrific enrichment for students wanting to understand more about the debate over measuring...
De-constructing the Laffer Curve and Trickle-down Economics
Here is a great opinion piece from Morris Pearl in the Guardian on trickle-down economics, echoing J.K.Galbraith's view that the very notion is flawed. His analogy was that trickle-down economics...
Natural Capital: The Wealth of a Wetland
Here is a World Bank clip looking at the importance of wetlands to sustainable development in Uganda, and tangentially the issue of how we measure development itself. It is also clear that there...
Economics Weekly Quiz - 14 June 2019
Here's this week's economics news quiz. Good luck!
Revolutionary technologies can take decades for their full impact to become clear. The internet may now be heralding the demise of many manufacturing companies.
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Economics Weekly Quiz - 7 June 2019
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This 12 minute video from PBS in the USA is ideal enrichment material for students looking at the issue of how to measure and calibrate changes in economic well-being, a much broader and - to an...
Amazon trials ten pop-up shops on the UK high street
Keeping up to speed with the fast-changing high street environment is never easy. Recently eBaY opened a pop-up shop to showcase the wares of some of their traders and now Amazon is launching ten...
Waitrose joins the Unpackaged Movement
The circular economy in action! This could well become one of the key points of non-price differentiation between grocery retailers in the UK. Waitrose is trialling refilling stations for dried...
Economics Weekly Quiz - 31 May 2019
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Capital in the 21st Century - The Official Trailer
Here is the trailer for Capital in the 21st Century which comes out in the summer of 2019 and is a film adaptation of one of the most groundbreaking and powerful books of our time by Thomas Piketty.
Why The Inequality Gap Is Growing Between Rich And Poor
This video focuses on the USA but has a broader currency in helping to explain some of the structural factors behind increasing inequality.
Brazil dam disaster: The cost of economic development
This is a hugely sobering video from BBC Newsnight about the human cost of the collapsed dam at an iron ore mine in Brumadinho. For many, the tragedy is a stark consequence of a pattern of...
Economics Weekly Quiz - 24 May 2019
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In this video I look at some of the real topical issues and debates that might form the basis for a context data response question or essay question in the 2019 macro paper. Please note - this is...