Welcome to Economics!

Welcome to the many new students taking Economics for the first time as schools and colleges begin a new school year. Here are some links for Economics students wanting to keep bang up to date with a fast moving subject! Impress your Economics teachers by showing them you are following the news and the many issues that form an important part of year 12 Economics courses. You'll reap the rewards too when it comes to the exams in the summer.

Keeping up to date with Economics – links for new economists

Here are some suggestions! We will keep adding them to this blog as the course develops this year.

General economics news and analysis:

• BBC economics news: www.bbc.co.uk/news/business/
• Sky business news: http://news.sky.com/business
• Guardian business and economics: www.theguardian.com/business/economics

tutor2u economics blog:

• Main blog: www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/
• Economics revision notes: www.tutor2u.net/economics/revision-notes/
• Revision presentations: www.slideshare.net/tutor2u
  

Scoop.It Boards for Economics Students:

• UK economy: www.scoop.it/t/developments-in-the-uk-economy
• Development economics: www.scoop.it/t/development-economics-1
• Business economics: www.scoop.it/t/unit-3-micro-business-economics
• Microeconomics: www.scoop.it/t/microeconomics-pre-u-economics
• Introductory microeconomics: www.scoop.it/t/econ1-the-market-mechanism
• Chinese economy: http://www.scoop.it/t/china-pre-u
• Market structures and business economics: http://www.scoop.it/t/econ3-market-structure-examp...

Recommended Economics journalists

• Linda Yueh (BBC): www.bbc.co.uk/news/correspondents/lindayueh/ see also http://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=linda%20yueh
• Tim Harford (FT and BBC): www.timharford.com
• Peter Day (BBC): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/correspondents/peterday/
• Larry Elliott (Guardian): http://www.theguardian.com/profile/larryelliott
• David Smith (Sunday Times): http://www.economicsuk.com/blog/
• Paul Krugman (New York Times): www.krugman.blogs.nytimes.com
  

Twitter:

• tutor2u @tutor2u_econ (Geoff Riley)
• tutor2u @tutor2u_jon (Jon Clark)
• tutor2u @tutor2u (Jim Riley)
• Economics blog
• Tim Harford @timharford
• Linda Yueh @lindayueh
• David Smith @dsmitheconomics
• More here: http://studyingeconomics.ac.uk/economics-twitters/

Economics teachers on twitter:

https://twitter.com/tutor2u/lists/economics-teachers-depts/subscribers

You Tube:

• Financial Times: https://www.youtube.com/user/FinancialTimesVideos
• PJ Holden: https://www.youtube.com/user/pajholden
• Bank of England: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY70MMJ8Rj4wtwt7bVN6hIA
• The Economist: https://www.youtube.com/user/EconomistMagazine

Weekly / regular economic briefings

Deloitte Briefing (highly recommended!): http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_GB/uk/research-and-intelligence/monday-briefing/

BBC Business Daily: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/bizdaily

More ambitious reading:

Project Syndicate: http://www.project-syndicate.org/economics

Help with your Economics revision

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