Here is a short video from the Legatum Institute covering the launch of the 2016 African Prosperity Report. With a decade of strong growth in Africa now at its close, where has that growth most...
The new specifications in A Level Economics challenges students to think a little more laterally about what is meant by economic progress and growth. While measuring GDP remains significant, an...
Efficiency and Collecting Panini Football Stickers
At the moment I'm in the middle of trying to complete the latest Panini football sticker album; I’m also reading Philip Roscoe’s book "I Spend, Therefore I Am". So exactly what have these got to do...
UK industries most exposed to Brexit
A focused two minute video from the Financial Times explaining which are the British sectors that are likely to feel the greatest impact from a Brexit and how.
Explaining the Australian Immigration Points System
This is a handy explainer from the Financial Times - it looks at how the Australian immigration points system works.
Revision Advice for OCR F585
Here are some summary slides offering advice for students as they prepare for OCR F585
Can cutting public spending expand the economy?
Martin Feldstein of Harvard is an economist who should always be taken seriously. Writing in 1997 about the forthcoming introduction of the Euro, for example, he said “the adverse economic effects...
Intervention in Markets - Will the legal highs ban work?
A ban on the sale of legal highs has come into force in England. But will be ban be effective? Or does it risk creating even greater harm.
What can the iPhone tell us about China's Trade?
In this short video, Professor Miaojie Yu (Peking University) explains how China's openness to processing trade - such as putting together iPhones to export around the world - has been responsible...
Social Norms - HIV Testing and Risky Sexual Behaviour
The 2016 Austin Robinson Memorial Prize was awarded jointly to Pedro Gomes (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) and Erick Gong (Middlebury College) at the Royal Economic Society's 2016 Conference....
Education and the Mafia - An Offer you can't Refuse!
Giovanni Mastrobuoni (University of Essex) and Ferdinando Guigliano (La Repubblica) talk about the new economic research showing that mafia criminals have more to gain from education than most...
Tim Harford on Loss Aversion
If you are studying behavioural economics as part of your new A level course, then I highly recommend you have a read of this piece from Tim Harford exploring loss aversion.
EconoFun is taking off!
We are really pleased to hear of the success of the EconoFun product developed and nurtured by Serena Patel.
French Government Introduces Labour Market Reforms
You may have heard that there have been a series of strikes occurring in France at the moment as various groups of workers and unions protest against a raft of measures that the French Government...
We are delighted to announce details of our expanded and upgraded programme of intensive one-day exam courses for students taking A Level Economics exams in summer 2017.
Disadvantaged students in Scotland less likely to go to university than their English counterparts
Modern economists focus more clearly on increasing equality and access both as a social objective and as a means of achieving higher economic growth. Attending university and attaining a valuable...
Growth and Governments
Will history repeat itself? A great article for A2 students around government intervention in planning for future growth.
The Economics of School Holidays
Everyone with children will know that holidays during school time are much cheaper than those that aren’t. Now, new research has shown that half-term holidays can cost up to three times as much!...
Here's a new variation on one of our most popular activities - The Government Game (International Competitiveness version). It is an hour long activity aimed primarily at students who have just...
Product Differentiation at Rosa Brothers Milk Company
Three Economics Professors from California head on a road-trip to look at how milk farmers are using product differentiation to achieve commercial viability in a market where the state of...