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Addressing the Infrastructure Gap - New Toll Roads in Senegal
Ed Glaeser often makes the point that introducing early the user-pays principle into infrastructure investment is a key part of the infrastructure jigsaw especially in developing countries. This...
Shaking the Magic Money Tree
Shaking the Magic Money Tree broadcast on Radio 4 looked at the effect of Quantitative Easing on the UK economy. Is it possible to disaggregate its effects, and did it advantage some over others.
The Planet's Biggest Baked Bean Factory
We simply had to cross post this from the Business Blog! A stunning three minute video following the production process of the Heinz baked bean factory in Wigan Lancashire which can supply up to 3...
Obesity: not just a rich-world problem
A new short video from the Economist - providing excellent context and a prompt for classroom discussion.
Economic Development: Vietnam Rising
Here are two new videos from the IMF focusing on growth and development drivers in the fast-growing Vietnamese economy.
Is free trade good or bad?
Andrew Walker has written an excellent article on the benefits and costs of trade - ideal enrichment reading for Year 13 economists studying aspects of trade and globalisation.
Robots transform the logistics industry
This is a compelling, superb video report from the FT on how robotic technologies are having a transformative impact on the fast-growing logistics industry.
Richard Thaler & Behavioural Economics - The Man, The Ideas
A video tribute to the 2017 Nobel Prize Winner in Economic Sciences Richard Thaler'.
How airlines price flights
This video clip looks at the pricing of seats on the route from New York to Los Angeles, highlighting the various factors that help determine the price of your ticket between the two destinations.
Plastic Planet - An Economic and Human Crisis
This blog brings together articles, videos and other resources on perhaps one of the most pressing environmental crisis of modern times, namely the staggering growth of plastic pollution and the...
Smart Cities and Sustainable Development in Africa
This video looks at the possibilities of countries in Sub Saharan Africa upgrading their infrastructure by using Green Building Councils to help promote smart cities, better able to make the most...
Hawassa Industrial Park in Ethiopia - Evaluating the impact of FDI
The Guardian visits Hawassa Industrial Park in Ethiopia and provides a fantastic mini case study for students taking development economics as part of their A-level.
Carbon: From Pollutant to Product
The cement industry generates around nine percent of the world's carbon emissions each year. Roughly one tonne of CO2 is produced for each tonne of cement.
The Presource Curse
This article from the December 2017 edition of Finance and Development (published by the IMF) will be of interest and value to students and teachers for whom development economics and policy is a...
Behavioural Economics: Category Size Bias
Here is a good example to use when discussing behavioural biases, specifically the problems people have in estimating probability and the exaggerated importance of category size when people...
Adapt to survive in an intangible world
The Guardian's John Harris writes here on 'platform capitalism', with a large nod in the direction of Haskel and Westlake's new book "Capitalism Without Capital". It makes for fascinating reading,...
Capitalism without capital
A new book by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake - Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy - is causing quite a stir among those intrigued by the rise of digital platform...
How technology tries to hack your brain
The distraction and the emotion of the attention economy is explored in this superb video from David Grossman of BBC Newsnight.
How the US Federal Reserve sets interest rates
How the Federal Reserve sets rates. It's American-focused but shows how the base rate is only part of the story for the average bank customer, and thus equally applicable to the UK too.
Universal Credit - A Case Study in Government Failure
This is deeply sobering six minute video from BBC Newsnight as we visit a food bank in the west end of Newcastle upon Tyne.
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