AQA and Edexcel Set To Dominate A Level Economics
Exam boards AQA and Edexcel look set to share the spoils for the new AS and A Level Economics specifications when teaching begins in September 2015.
A-Z of Disruptive Businesses
Here is a snapshot of businesses that have challenged the existing / established business models in their chosen markets / segments. I am sure we can add to the list and also debate the extent to...
Calls for greater competition in the aviation industry
According to The Economist, given that flying people around the world is the ultimate globalised industry, there is oddly little competition in the airlines business. This lack of competition is...
Deutschland Unter Alles
There's an excellent article in today's Telegraph highlighting the fact that Germany faces a demographic time bomb and that this has potentially calamitous consequences for the German economy...
Your Choice of New A Level Economics Spec for Sept 2015
Have you made your decision about which exam board spec to teach from September 2015?Please could you spare us 60 seconds to complete this online survey.Many thanks!
Evidence that “landlocked” economies are disadvantaged
I'm sticking to my view that the greatest economic innovation of the last 50 years has been container shipping. By collapsing the cost of transporting materials, opportunities for trade have...
Sustainable Development Goals
When the Millennium Development Goals were adopted in 2000 they seemed hopelessly optimistic. But the most important one was achieved five years early. This was to halve, by 2015, the share of...
Bargaining Clout of Employers - Monopsony Power
A hat tip to Katherine Fey for tweeting about this excellent short article posted on the World Economic Forum blog. Most economists agree that the balance of power in the U.K. labor market has...
British Manufacturing: solving the Productivity Puzzle
Everyone preparing for A2 papers should put aside an hour or so of their revision time to consider two great resources which have appeared this week, analysing why Britain's productivity isn't...
John Nash celebrated on More or Less
Tim Harford's More or Less programme on Radio 4 celebrates the work of John Nash in this short audio pod cast
De-Merit Goods - Banning Legal Highs
The Conservative government has announced plans to legislate to ban legal highs in the UK. BBC news reports that draft laws will prohibit the substances' production, distribution, sale and supply.
Mini Lecture - The Global Financial Crisis
Released in February 2015, this short 8 minute film addresses causes and possible solutions of the global financial crisis that hit the world in 2007 with lecture snippets of Robert Mundell and...
Horizontal Integration - Pure Gym buys LA Fitness
In a class example of horizontal integration in the competitive market for fitness gyms and health clubs, Pure Gym has made an agreed bid for LA Fitness in a deal that will make it the biggest...
There is a growing body of opinion that coal is the major villain in climate change. In six months world leaders are due to seal a global climate change agreement in Paris, which some countries say...
Climate Change Coal and Intervention
There is a growing body of opinion that coal is the major villain in climate change. In six months world leaders are due to seal a global climate change agreement in Paris, which some countries say...
Greek bank deposits fall to 10 year low
The news that deposits in Greek banks have fallen to a ten year low is a reflection that savers are getting increasingly nervous about a Greek exit from the Euro. Deposits are the life blood of the...
Shazam turns to image recognition
One of my favourite British tech businesses is the music recognition company Shazam. It now has over 100 million users and has become the first tech start-up in the UK to be valued at over $1...
Generation G - The Greek Brain Drain
Fresh evidence is emerging of the scale of the brain drain affecting the beleaguered Greek economy. Some estimates find that nearly 200,000 well-educated Greeks have left the country in recent...
Revision Presentation - International Competitiveness
This is a revision presentation on international competitiveness which we define as the ability of a business or a country to compete effectively in international markets
How Nash Equilibrium Changed Economics
In this short 3 minute video from the Financial Times, Ferdinando Giugliano explains why the work of John Forbes Nash - who died in May 2015 - is so important and how the Nash equilibrium theory...