Success in AQA A-Level Economics 2019 - the CPD Course
A forensic examination of what the principal examiners have said about why A-Level Economics students are under-performing is at the heart of the new resources developed for the upcoming SUCCESS IN...
Tragedy of the Commons - Cod stocks on course to crash
An excellent snippet that highlights the impact of climate change on sustainable fishing.
Theory of Demand - The Role of Influencers
How many of us have recommended a product to others - perhaps during a water cooler conversation - or have been prompted to buy after being influenced online?
Economics Weekly Quiz - 25 January 2019
Here's this week's Economics news quiz. Good luck!
Measuring inflation and the impact on our everyday lives
Inflation tells us how much the prices of goods and services are going up. The question is: which ones do we put into the basket when we are working this out?
Shrinkflation ‘Dial Up’ Activity: Estimate These Shrinking Product Sizes
The ONS have produced another report on 'shrinkflation' - the concept that businesses are reducing the size of their products without reducing the price that they charge to consumers. It's an...
Solar Powers India's Future
Here is a great clip from the International Finance Corporation - looking at India's ambition to produce 40% of its power from renewable sources by 2030.
How Porsches Are Made
Wow! A stunning four minute video that takes us behind the scenes of the Porsche factory in Leipzig in Germany where thousands of robots (and some humans) come together to manufacture 160,000...
Can butchers survive the vegan boom?
Another look at changing consumer tastes, and their impact on the High Street. This time, it's butchers under the cosh as vegetarianism becomes increasingly popular and just a short while after the...
Climate change battle requires international cooperation
Here is a neat application of game theory at the margin, and certainly the economics of co-operation.
Economics Weekly Quiz - 18 January 2019
Here's this week's Economics news quiz. Good luck!
Uber introduces 15p per mile "clean air fee"
Uber is adding a clean air fee of 15p per mile to every trip taken in London. The current per mile fare is £1.25. The aim of the clean air fee is to help raise up to £200 million to support Uber...
Car alliances are the future in an age of technological disruption
Larry Elliott's excellent article about the reasons for carmakers struggling, is developed here - with the news that Ford and VW are planning not a merger, but an alliance to exploit new technology...
How Gregg's vegan sausage roll stormed social media
This is both economic - you might look at consumer choice, and the impact of marketing on price elasticity of demand, and Business Management, indicating the importance of skilled marketing. The...
Visible from Space: The World’s Largest Solar Power Plant
Look at the size of that solar park 36 kilometres squared in Egypt's Aswan desert, a private sector venture that will provide as much electricity as the Aswan Dam, remarkable. Renewable power meets...
How does Brexit affect the Pound?
An entry level piece about the nature of currency prices, and how Brexit has affected the value of the pound - a really good little introduction to this topic, which gets you thinking about the...
Inside China's Future Factory
Bloomberg Business visits Shenzhen the heart of China's tech revolution - a superb nine-minute video guaranteed to stimulate classroom discussion from a growth and development perspective. We meet...
Introducing the AQA A-Level Economics Diagram Practice Book
Great news for all AQA A-Level Economics students! There is now a comprehensive printed workbook that provides diagram practice for all the core microeconomics and macroeconomics concepts.
Economics Weekly Quiz - 11 January 2019
Happy New Year, quizzers. Here's this week's Economics news quiz. Good luck!
Cows, parmesan and the future of money
The Bank of England has a new blog resource here on the history and the future of money - excellent enrichment reading for students and teachers looking the functions of money and developments in...