Deglobalisation risks hurting economic growth everywhere
Kenneth Rogoff writes that deglobalisation is going to hurt growth everywhere, not least in the United States.
Economics News Quiz - 5 June 2020
Here's this week's economics news quiz. Good luck!
2,000 jobs have gone at one of the UK's largest sandwich making firms, Adelie Foods, which has shutdown in the wake of the pandemic.
The Guardian carries a story that suggests that the market for fossil fuels could collapse, based on a report by financial think-tank Carbon Tracker.
Can we learn from history? An excellent book by Ben Gummer on the Black Death in 14th century Britain, “The Scourging Angel”, shows that we can.
Economics and Me - A New Podcast
Will Haines has a new podcast exploring topical issues in Economics and the early episodes are well worth a listen!
Kahoot Quizzes for Economics
This blog curates an updated series of Kahoot Quizzes on key economics topics.
The Economics Observatory is launched
A hugely impressive roster of economists have come togetherto answer key policy questions on the Covid-19 crisis.
This week's enrichment tasks have a change of emphasis, as instead of research, they require students to listen to podcasts of recent public lectures at the London School of Economics. The LSE has...
Radical Uncertainty: decision making in an unknowable future [Year 12 Enrichment Task]
This week's enrichment tasks have a change of emphasis, as instead of research, they require students to listen to podcasts of recent public lectures at the London School of Economics. The LSE has...
Coronavirus accelerates car industry restructuring
The car industry is going to undergo massive restructuring, with Renault shedding 15,000 jobs.
Economics News Quiz - 29 May 2020
Here's this week's economics news quiz. Good luck!
Greening the Economy - No Trade Off with Growth
The Guardian makes the case that there is no need for there to be a trade-off between growth and environmental concerns.
This is Poverty
This is a really powerful film from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation about the multi-dimensional nature of poverty, which manifests itself in different ways.
CoronaNomics - economic solutions to the corona crisis
CoronaNomics is presented by Ben Chu of the Independent and Lizzy Burden of the Telegraph and guests have included Joe Stiglitz and Esther Duflo.
Economics News Quiz - 22 May 2020
Here's this week's economics news quiz. Good luck!
Is national happiness going to be a better way to measure economies than GDP, in 2020? [Year 12 Enrichment Task]
Year 12 economics students are likely to have studied the various measures of national happiness, or wellbeing, as alternatives to GDP. With the GDP of the UK predicted to shrink by up to a third,...
Should China offer debt forgiveness to the developing world? [Year 13 Enrichment Task]
Students in year 13 will have studied development economics as part of their A level syllabus, and are likely to be aware that debt and loan repayments are one of the factors which constrains...
Huge rise in the claimant count as recession bites
The extent of the rise in unemployment as a result of coronavirus is reflected in data that in the first full month of lockdown, the claimant count measure of unemployment reached 2.1 million, a...
Brilliant from Beattie - a superb ten minute economic history video from the FT's senior trade writer Alan Beattie looks at the the forces behind the surge and collapse of globalisation. This is...