• Evaluation - using a football analogy

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  • AS Macro Revision - Key Term Revision Bank

    Updated: 2013-01-11 16:15:33
    This interactive revision resource tests whether students can match a definition from AS Macroeconomics to one of five key terms. Each time you take the quiz, the resource selects 10 definitions from our database. Please allow 5-10 seconds for the quiz to load as it selects a new set of definitions from the server! Launch AS Macroeconomics Key Term Revision Bank

  • AS Micro Revision - Key Term Revision Bank

    Updated: 2013-01-11 16:15:33
    Here is a little interactive revision resource that students preparing for AS Economics Unit 1 (Micro) might find helpful. Each time the quiz is loaded, ten definitions are drawn from our AS Micro glossary and the student is presented with a choice of five terms. Drag and drop the correct term to match the definition. Launch AS Economics Micro Key Term Revision Bank

  • Paul Ormerod: Meat and potato pies and the Nobel Prize in economics

    Updated: 2013-01-11 00:14:03
    Tragedy struck at a mid-week game played during the holiday season in Football League Division Two. nbsp; The pies ran out in the home supporters’ bar. nbsp; The incident may seem trivial to those not involved. Yet it illustrates some important themes in economics, which have even gained their inventors the Nobel Prize.

  • Egyptian Currency Problems

    Updated: 2013-01-11 00:14:01
    Tough times ahead in Egypt.

  • Teaching Vacancy - Economics Teacher (Outer London)

    Updated: 2013-01-11 00:13:58
    Details below of a fantastic teaching opportunity for Economics. Deadline is Monday 21 January 2013!

  • Arrunada Seminar: Paul Dower

    Updated: 2013-01-10 14:49:12
    | Paul Dower | Centralized vs. Decentralized Allocation In Benito Arruñada’s insightful new book, Institutional Foundations of Impersonal Exchange: Theory and Policy of Contractual Registries, the widespread failure of titling programs in developing countries is used as motivation for a greater appreciation of the role of contractual registries. In many developing countries, immovable assets, especially [...]

  • Unit 4 Macro: The World Trade Organisation (WTO)

    Updated: 2013-01-10 00:26:39
    Revision notes and resources on the World Trade Organisation (WTO)

  • Macro ‘follies’ brought to you by EconStories

    Updated: 2013-01-09 16:25:54
    Arghh! Gutted that I missed this one just before Christmas, but those very witty EconStories people (who brought you the Keynes vrs Hayek raps parts 1 and 2 have been at it again! 

  • Arrunada Seminar: Giorgio Zanarone

    Updated: 2013-01-09 07:40:31
    | Giorgio Zanarone | The Contracts behind Contracting Benito Arruñada’s “Institutional Foundations of Impersonal Exchange” is an important book in many ways. It develops a unified theory of property and business registries. It provides the reader with deep historical and institutional analyses that make the theory compelling. And it discusses paths for the reform of [...]

  • Unit 4 Macro: GDP and PPP Adjustments

    Updated: 2013-01-09 00:24:15
    Gross domestic product (GDP) is the total value of output in an economy and is used to measure change in economic activityGDP for different countries is usually measured in a common currency – normally we use the US dollar. But there are two problems in using exchange rates to measure GDP

  • The Junk Food Debate on Storify

    Updated: 2013-01-09 00:24:13
    My OCR AS Micro Students are preparing for Tuesdays AS Micro Paper. The debate about the best policy option to tackle the market failure of junk food could not be better timed. nbsp;

  • Unit 3 Micro: Business Economics News Stories

    Updated: 2013-01-09 00:24:10
    This Scoop It Board is curated daily to add new content and commentary on market and industry news relevant to A2 micro unit 3 students.

  • Unit 4 Macro: The Middle Income Trap

    Updated: 2013-01-09 00:24:09
    The middle income trap exists for some countries that make significant progress in reducing extreme poverty and experience structural change and growth but then find it difficult to make the climb from being a middle-income country to achieve high-income fully-developed status. GDP growth rates often slow down and a country can struggle to build and maintain international competitiveness.  esearch from the World Bank finds that only 13 of the 101 countries deemed to be middle-income countries in 1960 had achieved high-income levels in 2011. Different studies find different thresholds for where growth tapers off, ranging from $8,500 to $18,500 at 2010 prices, adjusted for purchasing power parity.

  • Collective Dairy at the Eton Entrepreneurship Society

    Updated: 2013-01-07 21:06:48
    Our Spring 2013 speaker programme kicks off on Thursday 17th January with a much anticipated visit from the Founder and CEO of the Collective Dairy, one of Britain's most innovative natural food businesses. Collective Dairy has proved to be a big hit in the last couple of years benefiting from a hugely energetic social media presence and successful entries into many of the UK's leading supermarket chains. Colleagues who would like to bring students to this event are invited to contact me by email and I will make the arrangements.

  • As Micro Unit 1 Information Provision video clip

    Updated: 2013-01-07 21:06:46
    A great video clip to introduce students to the new Government adverts advocating "healthy eating" and a solution to the negative externalities created by eating fast food.We had quite a debate as to whether this would actually work or not!http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20929984

  • Arrunada Seminar: Nuno Garoupa

    Updated: 2013-01-07 15:12:44
    | Nuno Garoupa | From the Washington Consensus to Arruñada’s Institutional Foundations of Impersonal Exchange Since the Washington Consensus and the deregulation movement took place thirty years ago, administrative simplification and reduction of bureaucracy has been on the agenda of policymakers. In fact, economists tended to agree that a strongly market-based approach requires an effective [...]

  • Unit 4 Macro: Economic Growth - the Solow Model

    Updated: 2013-01-07 05:05:32
    The economist Robert Solow (pictured) developed the neo-classical theory of economic growth. Solow won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1987. 

  • Teach GCSE Economics 2013 - CPD Course (15 May 2013)

    Updated: 2013-01-06 13:04:44
    A date for the department diary for all colleagues teaching GCSE Economics. I'm delighted that Innes Robinson and Jonny Clark have agreed to put a new resource-packed CPD day together which focuses just on improved teaching & learning for GCSE Economics. Looks like it will be a terrific day and well worth attending.The course is being run on Wednesday 15 May 2013 in Central London.Bookings for Teach GCSE Economics 2013 can be made here with delegate places priced at £190 to include a full resource pack.

  • Unit 4 Macro: Prospects for the Kenyan Economy

    Updated: 2013-01-06 05:03:55
    Some links here for students and teachers who look at the Kenyan economy as part of their growth and development studies. Growth prospects look positive but even a growth rate of 4% is insufficient to bring about an economic transformation and tackle very high rates of youth unemployment and under-employment. 

  • Unit 4 Macro: Economic Growth and Development Glossary

    Updated: 2013-01-06 05:03:53
    Hopefully this does what it says on the tin! 

  • Unit 4 Macro: The Failure of Austerity

    Updated: 2013-01-05 03:53:35
    Here is a selection of links and news videos on the vexed economic, social and political issue of fiscal austerity - there is a particular focus on the effects of austerity in the debt-ridden crisis countries of the Euro Zone

  • Unit 2 Macro: Key Term Glossary

    Updated: 2013-01-04 19:49:54
    An updated glossary of key terms for AS macro

  • The Secret Diagram Club

    Updated: 2013-01-04 19:49:53
    The first rule of secret diagram club is you don't talk about the secret diagram club! 

  • Unit 1 Micro: Flood Defence for Venice - a Public Good?

    Updated: 2013-01-04 05:56:27
    Flooding has been consistently in the news in recent years and examiners have already started to set questions about the costs and benefits of flood defence projects and the public good nature of flood defences. These investment projects invariably invite an evaluative cost-benefit approach. Here is a look at a controversial defence scheme for Venice - one that raises many environmental and economic issues.

  • Unit 4 Macro: E-Cash and Delivering Aid

    Updated: 2013-01-04 05:56:25
    This short report from Al Jazeerah news looks at the rise of e-cash systems (electronic money) as a way for aid agencies to transfer cash to vulnerable people rather than traditional sacks of food aid. The enter for Global Development has been at the forefront of establishing cash on delivery aid - more details here

  • Arrunada Seminar: John Nye

    Updated: 2013-01-03 16:33:35
    | John Nye | Formalization and “Optimal” Regulation Benito’s work on titling and formalization seems to serve as an excellent illustration of the problem of “optimal” regulation.  Much of the debate about state vs. market presupposes a clear-cut distinction between private and public spheres.  But as Benito’s complex discussion of the evolution of formalization and [...]

  • Arrunada Seminar: P.J. Hill

    Updated: 2013-01-03 16:22:49
    | P. J. Hill | The Importance of Sequential Exchange Arruñada’s important contribution to the vast literature on institutions and exchange comes from a concept that has been largely ignored by previous contributors (including me), namely the sequential nature of exchange. Most of us have treated the definition and enforcement of property rights as important [...]

  • Unit 1 Micro: Information Failure in Cosmetic Surgery

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  • Unit 3 Micro: Business Economics Glossary (EdExcel)

    Updated: 2013-01-03 05:54:11
    Here is my current Business Economics glossary designed for the EdExcel unit 3 economics paper

  • Unit 4 Macro: Links on International Financial Flows and Development

    Updated: 2013-01-03 05:54:09
    Here is a series of links to recently available resources on international financial flows and their impact on growth and development

  • Arrunada Seminar: Grand Opening

    Updated: 2013-01-03 00:57:05
    | Lasse Lien | Today we are proud to launch a virtual seminar over Benito Arruñada’s important new book: Institutional Foundations of Impersonal Exchange: Theory and Policy of Contractual Registries (U. of Chicago Press). First, what on earth is a virtual seminar? In this case a virtual seminar means that we over the next two [...]

  • Prospects for the UK Economy in 2013

    Updated: 2013-01-02 21:53:31
    As the sun rises on another year will the headwinds be favourable for Britain or are we facing up to another year of stresses and strains? ere is a brief commentary and overview of some of the key macroeconomic data for the UK economy together with some links to external articles and videos on economic prospects for Britain as we head in 2013.

  • AS Macro: Eight Chart Assignment on the UK Economy

    Updated: 2013-01-02 21:53:29
    There is a copy below of an assignment I am setting for my AS macro students when we gather for the start of a new term. here are eight macro charts to discuss in this assignment. In each case, pick out two important features of the data and write a brief commentary on why you think the data is significant in the context of the challenges facing the UK economy as we enter 2013. We will collate some of the best answers and put into a final document for the notes.

  • Imperfect Information - obesity caused by the same problem as debt!

    Updated: 2013-01-02 21:53:27
    Given that the increasing concern over obesity (and it's knock-on issues) are fairly prevalent in the news at the moment I thought this article from the Independent may be of interest.  he reporter is linking the causes of obesity and debt together - suggesting that our big problem as an animal is that we don't like to think about the future.   thought that it was an interesting link, not least because we probably all know that its true! It further illustrates the problem of imperfect information and our inability to consume products that benefit us in the long-run (e.g. pensions) and over-consume those products that we know are not good for us (e.g. 90% of what you have consumed over the last two weeks).Happy New Year to all Tutor2u blog readers.

  • Unit 1 Micro: Key Term Glossary - Markets and Market Failure

    Updated: 2013-01-02 21:53:26
    An updated glossary of key terms for the Unit 1 Economics paper

  • AS Economics Diagram Canvas

    Updated: 2013-01-02 21:53:24
    Here are two word-format files to help students create their own micro and macro theory diagrams in word and then integrate into their assignments.  

  • Unit 4 Macro: The Great Spanish Crash

    Updated: 2013-01-02 21:53:22
    Here is a link to Paul Mason's recent documentary on the rise and fall of the Spanish economy. A superb hour on the travails of one of the key countries inside the Euro Zone

  • econoMAX - Iceland’s Economy is Heating Up!

    Updated: 2013-01-02 21:53:20
    Mark Johnston explains how, over the last 4 years, the Icelandic economy has gone from financial disintegration to an emerging recovery and in doing so has taken a different policy stance than other economies faced with similar economic conditions.

  • econoMAX - Educating Girls Worldwide

    Updated: 2013-01-02 21:53:18
    Liz Veal (Editor of econoMAX) writes: ere in the UK we take for granted our education – my daughters have the same educational opportunities as my son; my sisters and I had the same chances as my brother. Education for all, irrespective of gender, is highly valued in our society and we are well-aware of the private and external benefits of education. In economics, we teach that the market would fail to provide enough education as it would be under-consumed because of the extra benefits to society that private individuals do not appreciate. This information failure is overcome with public sector provision of education, compulsory by law until aged 16.

  • econoMAX - Economic Insecurity and Obesity

    Updated: 2013-01-02 21:53:16
    Mark Johnston explains that there is no doubt that the social costs (private cost + external cost) associated with food consumption have been well documented. Rising obesity rates especially in those affluent developed nations have caused authorities to consider the reasons behind this issue. It transpires that economic insecurity plays a significant role in explaining trends in obesity for many affluent countries.

  • The “Market Power” of Top Journals

    Updated: 2013-01-02 15:37:22
    | Peter Klein | When elite academic journals impose stricter submission requirements, authors comply. When lower-ranked journals impose these restrictions, authors submit elsewhere. Key insight for editors: know your place. Revealed Preferences for Journals: Evidence from Page Limits David Card, Stefano DellaVigna NBER Working Paper No. 18663, December 2012 Academic journals set a variety of policies [...]

  • econoMAX - Has the Global Economy become a Bloc-o-holic?

    Updated: 2013-01-01 15:27:14
    As econoMAX Editor Liz Veal reports, in the post war period, the world economy has increasingly separated itself into trading blocs. Trading blocs have grown in size and some have become more economically integrated.

  • AS Micro: Exam Technique help for the AQA AS Economics ECON1 Paper

    Updated: 2013-01-01 15:27:13
    From the 2012 archives! Here is a brief revision presentation I used to give final advice to my students ahead of their AQA AS Economics ECON1 Micro paper back in 2011. Hopefully useful for students preparing for the next sitting. . I have also linked below to many of our AS micro resources

  • Zeitgeist 2012: Year In Review

    Updated: 2012-12-31 23:25:28
    2012 was a remarkable year in many ways and this three minute video from Google in my view brilliantly captures many dramatic and significant moments

  • Unit 3 Micro: Revision Advice for the Exam

    Updated: 2012-12-31 23:25:27
    Here are slides from a streamed presentation on approaching the A2 unit 3 micro paper.

  • Top Posts of 2012

    Updated: 2012-12-31 18:56:00
    | Peter Klein | It’s been a wild and crazy 2012, with the continued global recession, new developments and trends in strategic management and entrepreneurship research and practice, the resurgence of the Austrian school, and perhaps the most exciting worldwide event of 2012, the publication of the Foss and Klein book. We have an exciting [...]

  • Economics & Business News Quiz - 31 December 2012

    Updated: 2012-12-30 23:23:43
    To celebrate the end of another fun-packed and unpredictable year in the Economics & Business news, here are 10 questions on 2012.This quiz is also ideal for playing using Zondle TeamPlayLaunch conomics & Business News Quiz - 31 December 2012

  • Unit 4 Macro: Professor Justin Lin: how do developing economies grow?

    Updated: 2012-12-30 15:23:15
    I am linking in this blog to some of the ideas and arguments contained in "The Quest for Prosperity" the new book on economic development from Professor Justin Lin - in particular the case he makes for the need for a new development economics - devel econ 3.0! 

  • Behavioural Economics - Slides from a Short Course

    Updated: 2012-12-29 19:56:21
    I ran a short optional course in aspects of behavioural economics last term and this streamed presentation contains some of the slides from a few of the sessions. I enjoyed teaching it - this is a part of the subject that really ought to have greater prominence in the AS / A2 syllabus and students enjoy researching some of the potential practical applications of ideas drawn from behavioural in addressing economic and social problems and issues. Click on the behavioural economic blog category - here - for more teaching resources.

  • Unit 4 Macro: Global Development - 2012 in Pictures

    Updated: 2012-12-28 19:54:59
    The Guardian provides a feast of visual images covering some of the leading economic development stories of 2012. Their Global Development Blog is a superb resource and well worth following if you are studying or teaching global development as part of your course. Here is the link to their main blog.

  • Unit 4 Macro: Emerging economies in 2013 - Easterly and Moyo in Debate

    Updated: 2012-12-28 11:54:16
    This 34 minute debate features Professor Bill Easterly and Dambisa Moyo - looking at prospects for emerging countries in 2013 

  • Unit 4 Macro: Britain’s Future in the European Union

    Updated: 2012-12-28 03:53:39
    There has been plenty of discussion in recent weeks about whether Britain might seriously start to consider leaving the European Union? Here is a selection of news pieces and discussion videos on the vexed question of UK membership.

  • The Fiscal Cliff Explained

    Updated: 2012-12-28 03:53:36
    A superb short video here from Chris Lockwood at the Economist which explains the background to the Fiscal Cliff and the policy options being considered. 

  • Unit 4 Macro: OECD World Economic Outlook

    Updated: 2012-12-28 03:53:34
    The OECD's world economic outlook is published twice and year and is a heavyweight publication with plenty of great relevant macro for ambitious A2 students. I have linked below to their latest report - including a streamed presentation on their key data forecasts and emphasis on some of the underlying challenges facing OECD countries.

  • Unit 4 Macro: How mobile phones promote economic development

    Updated: 2012-12-27 04:16:25
    I am linking here to a lecture given recently at the Royal Society of Engineering by Tom Standage from the Economist. 

  • Unit 4 Macro: Brazil - economic slowdown continues

    Updated: 2012-12-27 04:16:22
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  • Unit 4 Macro: EdExcel Unit 4 Macro Exam Topic Tracker

    Updated: 2012-12-26 20:15:40
    This blog tracks question topics on the EdExcel Unit 4 macro paper. It will be updated as soon as possible after each exam session.

  • Unit 3 Micro: DropBox - Network Economics and Market Contestability

    Updated: 2012-12-25 20:14:13
    Here is a superb blog from the Economist magazine into a digital business built around the Freemium pricing model and where network effects are strong. Also good for understanding market contestability and the impact of new entrants on profit margins. Dropbox is my preferred file sharing system, I am pretty much locked in and wouldn't change!Freemium is a business model in which some basic services are provided for free, with the aim of enticing users to pay for additional, premium features or contentThe complete guide to freemium business models

  • EdExcel Economics Unit 3 Micro - Structured Question Topic Tracker

    Updated: 2012-12-23 20:45:15
    Question topics covered in the Unit 3 structured multiple choice exam s for EdExcel have been as follows:

  • Market Failure (Alcohol Fraud) - Evaluation

    Updated: 2012-12-23 12:44:48

  • Quickmemes for Academics

    Updated: 2012-12-23 05:31:42
    | Peter Klein | True confession: I love quickmemes. Yes, I know, they’re juvenile, most are silly, and more than a few are vulgar. But they make me laugh, sometimes uncontrollably. What about versions for academics? We could have Success Prof, Overly Attached Coauthor, Successful Grad Student, Sheltering Suburban Department Head, and so on. I’ve [...]

  • A2 Micro: From PFI to PF2

    Updated: 2012-12-22 20:43:18
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  • Don’t You Want Me Baby? - competition regulation in action

    Updated: 2012-12-22 20:43:17
    Apologies for the reference in this Blog’s title to the Human League’s 1981 Christmas number one single – it betrays my age. I’m sure if you come to use this example of competition regulation and contestability you will use something much more contemporary. nbsp;The back catalogue of all of the Human League songs of that era, along with many thousand more recent songs (such as those of Take That and Duffy) have just been bought by BMG – one of the world’s largest music publishing groups. BMG have purchased these rights from Universal who have been forced to sell them as part of their own takeover of EMI earlier in 2012.

  • Price elasticity of demand - soft drinks vs fruit and vegetables.

    Updated: 2012-12-21 01:24:08
    It's not always easy getting some good examples of price elasticity of demand figures so the results of this comprehensive study into food pricing and health should be useful, not only for elasticity but also for market failure. 

  • Less Globally Connected Than Before?

    Updated: 2012-12-20 17:23:21
    The financial crisis has ad implications for all reas of economic life; however, ne of the most profound has been on international trade. This is encapsulated in the fantastic lobal Connectedness Index compiled by DHL - ho, given their coverage of the globe are pretty well placed to observe changing trends in globalization.  

  • Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Anti-Fragile

    Updated: 2012-12-20 17:23:19
    In this edition of Meet the Author, the BBC's Nick Higham talks to the Lebanese-American author and former derivatives trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb about his new book, Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand.More reading here on Taleb's new bookSeven rules of anti-fragility (Farnham Street Blog)Learning to love volatility 

  • Unit 4 Macro: The Rise of Resource Nationalism

    Updated: 2012-12-20 17:23:18
    In many countries, resource nationalism has become more frequent in recent years, indeed it has been one of the key stories in 2012 as several countries have introduced new resource taxes, natural resource licence reviews and expropriation of assets from private sector companies. This Financial Times news video looks at the trends including resource nationalism within countries as provinces and regions look to exert great control on the revenues from oil, gas and mining projects.See also: Economist: Foreigners beware - oil and mining in IndonesiaResource insecurity: New report from Chatham HouseInteractive resource: New political economy of natural resources

  • Unit 4 Macro: Growth from Thailand to Turkey

    Updated: 2012-12-20 17:23:15
    Drawing on data from the December 2012 World Bank Database, this Guardian data resource looks at growth and development indicators for six fast growing countries over the period 2007-2011. The countries are hile, Ghana, Indonesia, Mexico, Thailand and Turkey, looking at child mortality, university enrolment, mobile phone subscriptions and the numbers of tourists arriving to analyse the 'boom'Click here for the resource

  • Monopsony Exam Paper Markscheme- By Popular Demand!

    Updated: 2012-12-18 18:23:23
    OK, as it seems the markscheme to go with my recent blog post is in popular demand, I've made it available online.

  • Unit 4 Macro must-read - Development Economics: Why is Liberia’s development so slow?

    Updated: 2012-12-18 18:23:22
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  • Paul Mason’s The Great Spanish Crash

    Updated: 2012-12-18 18:23:20
    Here's last night's fascinating look at the economic tragedy taking place in Spain right now. Still a week left on iPlayer.

  • Deloitte - Christmas Reading List!

    Updated: 2012-12-18 18:23:18
    Many thanks to our good friend Ian Stewart, Chief Economist at Deloitte for sharing this eclectic festive selection of reading, all of which is online! His Monday Morning Briefing is a delight to have in my inbox every week! Just type Deloitte Monday Briefing into Google and the right link will appear for a free sign up - it comes highly recommended!

  • Unit 3 Micro: Top Firms Target the Rich

    Updated: 2012-12-18 18:23:16
    The most innovative and productive firms send their exports to the world’s richest countries. That is the central finding of research by Rosario Crinò and Paolo Epifani, published in the latest issue of the Economic Journal. Their analysis of a representative sample of Italian manufacturing firms suggests that what firms produce – and how they produce it – is closely related to where they sell it.

  • Monopsony in the Supermarket Industry- Exam Questions

    Updated: 2012-12-17 00:26:00
    The other day I asked my year 13 Economists, which topics they wanted to revise before heading off for the Christmas holidays. Monopsony came up as being something they'd found particularly difficult recently, and so I've created some example exam questions to hopefully improve their understanding of this topic.

  • Unit 4 Macro: The effect of immigration on wages and prices

    Updated: 2012-12-15 16:23:19
    Immigration lowers the wages of relatively low-skilled native employees in sectors of the service economy that hire bigger shares of foreign workers. But the cost reductions that employers enjoy from lower wages are typically passed on to consumers: price inflation is much higher for services with no change in immigrant employment than for services where immigrant employment is growing.These are among the findings of research by Professors Bernt Bratsberg and Oddbjørn Raaum, published in the latest issue of the Economic Journal. Their study confirms that there are clear winners and losers from labour migration: low- and semi-skilled workers face increased competitive pressures on their wages and employment while consumers enjoy more services at lower prices.

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