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Gifted and Talented, Holiday Homework

posted to Economics on Tue 18th Jun 13

I am using Professor Niall Fergusons Reith Lectures as a holiday homework for my more able A-Level students.
Economics Teacher National Conference 2013 Draws Close!

posted to Economics on Mon 17th Jun 13

There are just a few days until we gather at the Henry Wellcome Foundation Conference Centre, Euston Road for our annual conference. A few places remain. We've put together what we hope you'll agree is a wonderful programme combined with a simply unbeatable
Econ 3: Wage Determination and Equality

posted to Economics on Mon 17th Jun 13

Here's a teaching resource suggested by one of our colleagues who attended the Wow Economics CPD event in Birmingham last week. We were discussing a resource called the Average Wage game (available as an individual download from this website) which asks

Revision: The Output Gap

posted to Economics on Tue 5th May 09

How much spare capacity does an economy have to meet a rise in demand? How close is an economy to operating at its productive potential? Will the current recession have a permanent effect on our ability to supply goods and services?These sorts of questions
Fair trade debate

posted to Economics on Tue 11th May 10

A hat tip to Harriet Thompson for this heads up - a debate at the Economist on This house believes that making trade fairer is more important than making it freer.
Introducing Ideas in Behavioural Economics

posted to Economics on Sat 6th Jun 09

Behavioural economics, introduction, As our AS students return to school after their exams, I will be giving my own students a broad introduction to aspects of behavioural economics and nudging them towards seeing how this rapidly expanding branch of the subject

Lots of ground to cover

posted to macroblog on Thu 28th Jul 11

In my last post I noted that the pace of the recovery, now two years old, is in broad terms similar to that of the first two years of the previous two recoveries. The set-up included this observation: "Though we have grown used to thinking of the rebound from
Are We There Yet?

posted to Economist's View on Thu 28th Jul 11

David Altig says there's a lot of ground to cover before things get back to normal: Lots of ground to cover, by David Altig: In my last post I noted that the pace of the recovery, now two years old, is in broad terms similar to that of the first two years of
Samuelson, Greece, fair trade, and academic journals.

posted to A Texan Economist on Tue 18th May 10

A tribute to Samuelson, from an ex-coworker.Rodrik uses Greece as a teaching tool for the world economy. Economic globalization, politcal democracy, and the nation-state: pick two. I wonder if the EU will be more careful in the future.An Economist debate on