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...
Intra-Regional Trade: A Challenge for South Asia
This World Bank clip looks at the relatively low level of intra-regional trade in South Asia and suggests that the countries of the region should be doing three times the trade that they currently...
Competitiveness - India as a smartphone powerhouse
This BBC clip looks at how the city of Noida, close to New Delhi, has seen 25 brands of smartphone located there. 30% of the world's smartphones are manufactured there. Why? In the first place,...
Why Vanilla Is So Expensive
The price of vanilla is soaring and it provides a superb mini case study in the impact of changes in the conditions of supply and demand. A recent article by David Pilling in the FT made the point...
Economics Weekly Quiz - 21 September 2018
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Sky takeover bid to be settled by auction
The UK's Takeover Panel, in consultation with all interested parties is to determine the outcome of rival Sky bids via an auction.
Empowering women as a driving force for development
The IMF looks at why empowering women is a good thing for development: it's relatively simple. Women represent more than 50% of the potential workforce and increasing female education also reduces...
Identification for Development
This World Bank clip looks at the most fundamental property right of all: to an identity. The Identification for Development Program is trying to give the 1 billion people without proof of identity...
The Rise of Private Firefighters
Whoever says that fire services are a public good, or even a quasi-public good? In the United States, record breaking wildfires are fuelling - no pun intended - the rise of private firefighters....
The New Age of Capitalism
What a fantastic enrichment resource for students - David Grossman's The New Age of Capitalism is a series of ten fifteen minute podcasts.
Stepping back to 2008
This excellent programme was broadcast on Saturday night on BBC Radio 4 and traces events surrounding the causes of global financial crisis. It is made up of extracts from archive BBC material and...
History Repeating: The Financial Crisis 10 Years On
Adam Parsons from Sky News has this special report from New York, a decade on from the collapse of Lehman.