National Go Home on Time day
Apparently September 23rd is National Go Home on Time day, part of National Work Life Week, according to the group Working Families.
How the sharing economy is sweeping the world
The phenomenon of 'collaborative consumption' - where you rent things for limited time periods - is becoming increasingly popular. This Telegraph article looks at the extent to which it is...
Price Discrimination by WH Smith
The Dewsbury Reporter doesn't often make it into the Economics Blog, but a hat-tip to Matt Smith for spotting this excellent example of price discrimination (or price gouging) by WH Smith in...
The Volkswagen Scandal
This excellent Channel 4 clip looks at the breaking scandal surrounding Volkswagen - and considers how the brand has been tarnished by it faking emissions testing results in the US. Amusingly,...
The trolley problem and ethics of driverless cars
A superb five minute video from David Grossman that aired on BBC Newsnight about some of the ethical issues connected to the rise of autonomous vehicles (or driverless cars). He recreates the...
How discounters are beating the supermarkets
Just a classic market to study - grocery retailing - and in this instance it's the discounters who are winning. You might think that this is surprising given that all the data suggests that the...
Teaching PowerPoints for A Level Economics
Our collections of brand new teaching PowerPoints for the new AQA, Edexcel and OCR Year 1 (AS) teaching content are now all complete and ready to use.
Investing In Britain: What Does China Own?
This is an excellent background piece from Sky News on the scale and scope of Chinese foreign direct investment in the British economy - from ports to airports to water companies and nowthe...
The Irish potato famine - classic demand and supply
I found this iWonder piece on the Irish famine from the BBC both fascinating and thought-provoking.
State of Play in the UK Jobs Market
This is an interesting magazine-style look at the current state of play in the UK labour market written by Chris Lawton of Nottingham Business School. In it, he drills down into the data, to look...
Mergers and Acquisitions in the UK Gambling Industry
This article summarises the frenzy of mergers in the UK gambling sector - Ladbrokes and Gala Coral, Betfair and Paddy Power and GVC and Bwin.party.
More on the UK Productivity Puzzle
Persistently slow growth of productivity in the UK economy in the last few years has major implications for competitiveness and ultimately for living standards and jobs. This FT discussion looks at...
What is Money
This entry curates some teaching and learning content on the important question of what is money?
Ratcheting Up the Renewables Ratio
In the run-up to the Paris Climate Change Conference at the end of the year, expect many more of this sort of article. It's not that there's a vested interest here, because there is but the scheme...
Topical Economics Quiz - 'Stay A Head'!
Here's an interactive Powerpoint quiz on current news events in worldwide economics (from the week beginning 14 September 2015) to test whether your students have been actively following the...
China's huge changes
This interactive graphic from the BBC is, I think, one of the most useful graphics I have seen in terms of mapping the huge changes that the Chinese economy has undergone in the past couple of...
20 Common Behavioural Biases
Click here for an infographic on 20 of the most common cognitive biases that can mess with your head when it’s decision time! Better still click below to download the word file that I have created...
Is Another Mega Brewing Merger On The Cards?
Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s largest brewer by sales, has approached rival SABMiller to explore a tie-up. This Financial Times discussion video looks at some of the possible motives behind the...
Poundland merger with 99p Stores approved
Poundland's merger with 99p Stores - its biggest rival - increasing concentration in this discount sector of the market, has been approved - hurrah! The Competition and Markets Authority feels that...
The Economic Efficiency of Roundabouts
In every single metric, roundabouts beat intersections in efficiency. That is the conclusion of a new study published on the Priceonomics website. Click here for the article