Stiglitz - Have enough lessons been learned before the next downturn?
Joseph Stiglitz argues herethat history has a lot to teach us, and that economists need to return to it, if they wish to head off the worst consequences of the next US downturn.
Watersones buys Foyles in bid to counter Amazon threat
Consolidation in the UK bookstore market as Waterstones tries to strengthen its position to counter the threat from Amazon. Waterstones has bought fellow book-retailer Foyles perhaps best known for...
Health care spending in the UK
Here are some links to the scale and pattern of health-care spending in the UK economy.
Five surprising outcomes of the 2008 Financial Crisis
Gillian Tett's article in today's FT is a fantastic list of unintended consequences, failures of regulation, and the difficulty of curbing monopoly power. There are lots of great commentary pieces...
Service sector growth boosts UK - for now
The PMI survey is an important indicator of the level of activity in an economy. It stands for Purchasing Managers Index, and is based on a monthly survey sent to senior executives at more than 400...
Think Tank calls for major reforms of the UK economy
The IPPR Commission on Economic Justice has found that the UK is being held back by a number of weaknesses, not least a lack of investment, and high levels of inequality and has proposed a number...
Coca Cola Buys Costa Coffee
Whitbread bought Costa for £19 million 23 years ago when it had only 39 shops. The breaking news today is that Coca Cola is buying the Costa Coffee chain from Whitbread plc for just under £4 billion.
Factors of Production - Enterprise. Try our 'Card Drop' activity on entrepreneurs
Lesson 1 - factors of production! Land, labour, capital, enterprise. Try this 'Card Drop' activity on entrepreneurs. There are 10 questions about real-life entrepreneurs. Each question has four...
Factors of Production - Enterprise. Try this 'Card Drop' activity
Lesson 1 - factors of production! Land, labour, capital, enterprise. Try this 'Card Drop' activity on entrepreneurs. There are 10 questions about real-life entrepreneurs. Each question has four...
Sky News/IPPR poll on the UK economy - download our worksheet
With impeccable timing, Sky News and the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) have released the findings of their extensive survey on how people view the relative 'fairness' of the UK...
Economics Quiz starter quiz
Like a number 5 bus, tutor2u brings you our second quiz of the day aimed at your new students. This quiz is a Powerpoint file, offering 10 multi-choice questions about UK and world economic stories...
Welcome to Business Economics Quiz (2018)
Here are some general knowledge / business and economics questions - many related to the news flow during the summer months.
The Economics Balloon Debate - a starter activity for an introductory Economics class
Here's a starter activity that could be used as an introduction to Economics at either A level or GCSE over the coming days. The activity is called 'The Economics Balloon Debate' and asks students...
Government floats ban on energy drinks for under-18s
If this change in law comes about, it will mark a potentially hugely significant intervention by the UK government. They are consulting about introducing a ban on under-18 buying drinks containing...
Exodus from Venezuela and the economics of revealed preference
How many people in the history of the world have fled from a capitalist country to a socialist one?
The derived demand for pilots
The demand for pilots is derived from the demand for air travel as this article makes clear. Boeing says Asia needs 240,000 pilots over next two decade including nearly a quarter of a million in...
Online shopping and warehouse space - derived demand in action!
A good example here of a derived demand, and an illustration of the changing nature of our shopping habits. Are retail warehouse clusters becoming (effectively) the new High Street?
Live Nation increases market domination of the festival sector
Here is a fascinating example of a firm developing increasing market dominance, with the market share of the vertically-integrated Live Nation in the market for music festivals causing concern...
The Joy of Winning - Game Theory in Action
Game theorists will surely love this programme on BBC Four in which Dr Hannah Fry hails the 20th-century scientists like John von Neumann and John Nash who worked out the science of success and...
Do consumers benefit from the sports rights battle?
How contestable is the market for broadcasting sports rights?