Britain's 'unhealthiest' High Street revealed
The Royal Society for Public Health has released a fascinating report on Britain's High Streets, naming Grimsby as the unhealthiest and Edinburgh as the healthiest.
Economics Weekly Quiz - 2 November 2018
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Economics Weekly Quiz - 26 October 2018
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Technology has improved living standards by more than we think
The media seems full of gloom at the moment. Chaos over Brexit, Saudi Arabia, potential nuclear escalation between America and Russia, you name it, it is there.
Preparing for the next recession
The Economist speculates that whilst we're ten years away from the last recession, we shouldn't be complacent and we might be on the brink of another recession, perhaps triggered by emerging...
Economics Weekly Quiz - 19 October 2018
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Lessons on innovation from a 2018 Nobel Prize winner
Gordon Brown’s time as Chancellor will be remembered for many things. A sense of humour would be conspicuously absent from this list. But he provoked a great deal of mirth unintentionally in a...
Fracking returns to the UK
It's been a long time since fracking's been in the news, so a new generation of post-16 economists might only have a brief acquaintance with it.
Out of the frying pan and into the ship
This story reveals the power of technology: new restrictions on sulphur dioxide emissions have forced global shipping to look for solutions to make their fuel less polluting. The solution? A...
Royal Economic Society Essay Competition 2018 - Winners Announced
The winners of the Royal Economic Society (RES) Essay Competition for 2018 have just been announced.
World Bank launches new human capital index
The World Bank has launched a new developmental index designed to measure the extent to which economies invest in health and education, so as to make the most of their human capital. It is hoped...
Recommended Enrichment Reading for Students Applying to Read Economics or Management at University
UCAS applications and interviews are coming up. But, what should students be reading if they want to study Management at University when there isn't a Management A-Level? And what are the Economics...
Economics Weekly Quiz - 12 October 2018
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Amazon increases their US minimum wage to $15 an hour
Amazon is one of the largest employers in the USA and the big news this week is that the company is raising pay for its workers domestically and in the UK. US-based workers will get a new minimum...
The fundamental economic problem: scarcity and choice, via an interesting example. In instance, South Africa's drought and subsequent water shortage forced one laundry entrepreneur to seek an...
How to Fuel the Future
This fantastic Economist clip looks at the state of the global energy sector, highlighting the importance of oil and the challenges facing the global economy in this regard.
An interesting opinion piece in today's Guardian arguing that there should be a far higher global carbon price to avoid apocalyptic rises in temperature.
Economics Weekly Quiz - 5 October 2018
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Economics Weekly Quiz - 28 September 2018
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Private sector debt will likely cause the next crisis
This month of course saw the 10th anniversary of the collapse of Lehmann Brothers, which precipitated one of the only two global financial crises of the past 150 years. The late 2000s and the early...