Google Acquires Fitbit
This is one of those mergers that I find hard to classify - is it a form of vertical integration, with Google becoming more customer facing, or is it akin to a conglomerate merger, as Google looks...
Econoween
The folks at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University have made a number of economics themed pumpkin carving kits available!
Regulatory Capture: Fossil fuel companies spend Euro 250m on lobbying
The extent to which the fossil fuel industry is able to lobby supra-national institutions is laid bare in this articlelooking at the amount spent, both by individual firms and industry groups, in...
Economics Weekly Quiz w/e 25 October 2019
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The state of the UK economy (Oct 2019) - an 'Elevator Quiz' activity
If you have been covering macroeconomic objectives during this first half term of this academic year, you might like to use this cracking 5 question multi-choice Powerpoint quiz on the state of the...
Xiaomi dominating India's smartphone market
Theme 3 Micro meets Theme 4 macro! This is a fascinating article that looks at how Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has become the market leader in the Indian smartphone market.
What future for the IMF and the World Bank?
The Guardian argues here that international financial organisations such as the IMf and the World Bank need a reboot, with a shift of emphasis away from their current neoliberal agenda and in...
Economics Weekly Quiz 18 October 2019
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Reasons to be cheerful about the 2019 Economics Nobel Winners
This year’s Nobel Prize in economics, announced on Monday, was a ray of sunshine amidst the prevailing media gloom. The award was made for the work of the new Laureates on the alleviation of global...
Banerjee, Duflo and Kremer win the 2019 Economics Nobel
We are delighted that the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics has been jointly awarded to Esther Duflo (only the second female recipient) along with Michael Kremer and Abhijit Banerjee for their...
Discover Economics campaign launches this week!
This is a hugely important campaign for the future of our great subject. Please disseminate widely if you can.
Farms struggle to recruit EU workers
This is a fascinating article with both micro- and macroeconomic implications - and another consequence of Brexit.
Economics Weekly Quiz 11 October 2019
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Dyson leaves the electric car market
Lots of interesting nuanced material here - investment appraisal, overcoming the sunk cost fallacy, all sorts. Either way, Dyson have left the market for electric cars. The company has 523...
Do protectionist tariffs hurt those they are meant to protect?
Protective import tariff measures introduced by the United States against products from China, as well as retaliatory actions by China against US products, have achieved more or less the exact...
Drone flight over millions of tulips
A quick flight over an enormous field of over 12 million tulips - economies of scale in action!
Economics Weekly Quiz 4 October 2019
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How China became the world's economic miracle
Essential reading for A level economists looking at China - a potted history of the growth of the Chinese economy since the 1949 revolution.
Jet fuel from thin air
Wow! This is what the future should look like. A Dutch pilot project is taking carbon dioxide from the air and using it to help manufacture jet fuel.
A Model Tax Rise? - Japan Lifts Sales Taxes
A lovely look here at the impact of an indirect sales tax on an economy. The Japanese government have raised sales tax from 8% to 10% and some are worried that it will have adverse effects upon...