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Development Economics - Universal Health Care
A very powerful World Health Organisation clip looking at universal healthcare. The important take-away: one-half of the global population don't have access to the healthcare that they need. That...
The Triple-Power of Infrastructure Spending
A great reminder in these topical examples that targeted infrastructure spending is tripled powered - driving higher levels of AD, long run aggregate supply and competitiveness.
The Economics of Knife Crime
Economics does not pretend to provide all the answers. But, perhaps surprising to some, it has a lot of useful insights to offer on crime.
Women and Economic Growth
This IMF clip highlights the important linkages between gender equality and economic growth - with Era Dabla-Norris highlighting the fact that women are under-represented in the labour market in...
Netflix and the Future for Cinemas
This BBC Reality Check clip looks at the impact of Netflix on the cinema industry - and represents a way into a lot of issues. Innovation, theory of the firm, cross price elasticity of demand, and...
Could a cashless economy help central banks to use negative interest rates?
This IMF blog (published February 2019) argues that a dual currency system involving e-money and cash might give central banks for more freedom to cut interest rates below zero as a policy response...
Abenomics in Japan - Resource Update
Abenomics has been in place for over five years but to what extent is Abenomics helping to lift Japan out of a deflationary period and address the challenges of an ageing population?
Measuring inflation and the impact on our everyday lives
Inflation tells us how much the prices of goods and services are going up. The question is: which ones do we put into the basket when we are working this out?
Sneakernomics
This BBC News article offers copious business and economics gold dust! The global athletic footwear market size was valued at $64.30 billion in 2017 and the industry supplying shoes has...
Taking renewable energy to the next level (2018 update)
We are likely to look back on 2018 as a year when many countries and regions of the world made further substantial progress in increasing renewable energy capacity and benefitting from economies of...
Poor management cited as a key supply-side weakness for the UK
An excellent piece here in the Guardian for dissecting some of the supply-side weaknesses brought about by under-performing management especially in family-run mid-sized firms.
Herd behaviour can be perfectly compatible with rationality
The Bank of England and Federal Reserve held a two-day conference last week in London on Big Data and machine learning. All very interesting stuff. There was an intriguing vignette as we emerged...
Inside the Ocean Spray Cranberry Cooperative
Business Insider visits a cranberry farm to explore how over 200 billion cranberries are harvested each year. Ocean Spray Cranberry farms are a part of a cooperative established in 1933 that...
Unintended consequences of inflation targets
Just fascinating - this article looks at the purpose and consequences of inflation targets, arguing that they don't always promote stability as intended but might actually increase uncertainty, and...
Infrastructure - Why is China so good at building railways?
Wendover Productions with another fantastic clip - this time looking at China's ability to build high-speed rail. China now has more high-speed rail links than the rest of the world put together,...
Lessons of Quantitative Easing
This is a US centric video clip but carries some pertinent evaluation points about the impact of quantitative easing on the US economy a decade on from the launch of this "unconventional monetary...
Inside the Amazon Warehouse - Monopsony under Scrutiny
BBC Newsnight pays a visit to the huge Amazon logistics facility in Rugeley, Staffordshire to look at working conditions. Has it successfully replaced the jobs lost when the Staffordshire coal...
Preparing for the next recession
The Economist speculates that whilst we're ten years away from the last recession, we shouldn't be complacent and we might be on the brink of another recession, perhaps triggered by emerging...
Lessons on innovation from a 2018 Nobel Prize winner
Gordon Brown’s time as Chancellor will be remembered for many things. A sense of humour would be conspicuously absent from this list. But he provoked a great deal of mirth unintentionally in a...
How to Fuel the Future
This fantastic Economist clip looks at the state of the global energy sector, highlighting the importance of oil and the challenges facing the global economy in this regard.