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Finding well researched news and analysis for teaching business and economics topics can be difficult, not to say expensive. Andrew [...]
A Review of Econland, a Simulation Game to Support Learning about Macroeconomics
Craig Brown of St Lawrence College, Ramsgate provides an independent review on behalf of the EBEA. Econland attempts to fill [...]
Using a Simulation Game to Support Macroeconomics Teaching
Tim Rogmans introduces his macroeconomics simulation game and provides some advice on how to weave it into your pedagogy. An [...]
The Art of Statistics, David Spiegelhalter, Pelican, £9.99, paperback, £9.99, 448 pages, ISBN 978 0241398630 AND Invisible Women, Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, Caroline Criado Perez, Vintage Publishing, 2020, 2020, Paperback, £9.99, ISBN 9781 784706289
Lies, damned lies and… We all know the end of the quotation is ‘statistics’, but as both Spiegelhalter and Criado [...]
Innovation + Equality: How to Create a Future That Is More Star Trek Than Terminator, Joshua Gans and Andrew Leigh, The MIT Press, 2019, Hardback, £20, 174 pages, ISBN: 978-0262043229
Innovation + Equality sets out to discover whether innovation requires inequality, or whether it causes inequality. As with most of [...]
Economics for a Changing World
Nancy Wall charts continuing attempts to ensure economics education has a wider vision of the real world Are you keeping [...]
Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and its Lessons, Timothy Geithner, Ben Bernanke & Henk Paulson, Penguin, 2019, Paperback, £9.99, ISBN 9781788163361
Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and its Lessons, is so called because it brings together the main men who were [...]
Good Economics for Hard Times, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Allen Lane, 2019, Paperback, 256 pages, £9.99, ISBN 9780141986197
Good Economics for Hard Times, by the husband and wife Nobel Prize winning authors Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, based [...]
How Money Works: The Facts Visually Explained, Senior editor: Kathryn Hennessy; Project editor: Sam Kennedy, Dorling Kindersley, 2017, ISBN: 978-0-2412-2599-8
I have used the Dorling Kindersley publication ‘The Economics Book’ frequently in the classroom since it was published, so I [...]
The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty Dan Ariely – New York: HarperCollins (2012).
Economics and business teachers in secondary education aim at improving the economic literacy of their pupils. Economic literacy encompasses knowledge [...]