Dyson leaves the electric car market
Lots of interesting nuanced material here - investment appraisal, overcoming the sunk cost fallacy, all sorts. Either way, Dyson have left the market for electric cars. The company has 523...
Do protectionist tariffs hurt those they are meant to protect?
Protective import tariff measures introduced by the United States against products from China, as well as retaliatory actions by China against US products, have achieved more or less the exact...
Drone flight over millions of tulips
A quick flight over an enormous field of over 12 million tulips - economies of scale in action!
Economics Weekly Quiz 4 October 2019
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How China became the world's economic miracle
Essential reading for A level economists looking at China - a potted history of the growth of the Chinese economy since the 1949 revolution.
Jet fuel from thin air
Wow! This is what the future should look like. A Dutch pilot project is taking carbon dioxide from the air and using it to help manufacture jet fuel.
A Model Tax Rise? - Japan Lifts Sales Taxes
A lovely look here at the impact of an indirect sales tax on an economy. The Japanese government have raised sales tax from 8% to 10% and some are worried that it will have adverse effects upon...
Deliveroo's losses widen to £232m
A nice article here to get you thinking as either economist or Business Management student about how Deliveroo can stay in business despite making a £232m loss despite "doubling its operation". Key...
Economics Weekly Quiz 27 September 2019
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Scottish minimum alcohol price reduces demand
Here is an interesting insight into the impact of a minimum price for alcohol in Scotland: the amount drunk by Scots has fallen by 7.6%, twice the forecast amount built into the modelling estimates...
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...
The Fall of Thomas Cook
Strip away the short term dynamics of poor management, Brexit uncertainty and the falling pound. The best explanation that I have heard for the demise of Thomas Cook is that it was fundamentally an...
Investors snub £250m bond sale by Metro Bank
The challenger brand Metro Bank is going through some tough times at the moment, not helped by the mis-classification of loans worth nearly £1 billion earlier this year. A new bond issue worth...
Bali bans plastic bags
The island of Bali has banned plastic bags, responding to a remarkable campaign led by a 16 year-old girl.
Universal health coverage - a progress report
This WHO clip looks at how far we've moved towards the SDG goal of achieving Universal Health Coverage, with the WHO Global Monitoring Report charting how much progress there's been.
Student essay: Will Uber ever be profitable?
Year 12 student Max Ghose has written this superb introductory micro essay on Uber.
Economies of Scale: The Largest Sandwich Factory in the World
Here is a great five minute video looking at mass production of sandwiches in the biggest sandwich factor in the world based in Nottinghamshire. Lots of potential economies of scale evident here...
Google signs up to $2bn wind and solar investment
Google is going green, having signed the largest renewable energy deal in history, meaning that the company will be supplied with clean energy from wind and solar power.
Economics Weekly Quiz 20 September 2019
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