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Book Reviews
The views expressed in reviews are those of the reviewers and are not necessarily endorsed or shared by the EBEA. The EBEA welcomes comments on any reviews or articles in TBE. Please send your comments [...]
Special Feature for New Teachers: Teaching Business, Economics, and Enterprise 14-19: An Introduction
Helena Knapton begins our series of articles focused on new teacher development with a special focus on assessment. Special message from the EBEA Chair: ‘In the last issue of TBE we reported on the continued [...]
Have You Registered for FREE FT.com Access Yet?
Finding well researched news and analysis for teaching business and economics topics can be difficult, not to say expensive. Andrew Jack of the Financial Times explains how to make the most of this extraordinarily valuable [...]
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 a gap in the very spartan land of macroeconomic simulation games. Players are responsible for [...]
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 independent review follows this article. Econland is a simulation game and learning platform designed to [...]
The Art of Statistics, David Spiegelhalter, and Invisible Women, Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, Caroline Criado Perez.
Lies, damned lies and… We all know the end of the quotation is ‘statistics’, but as both Spiegelhalter and Criado Perez demonstrate, it should really be ‘misunderstood statistics’ or possibly ‘deliberately misleading statistics’ which wouldn’t [...]
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 these discussions, the answer turns out to be ‘it’s a bit more complicated than that’. [...]
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 up with the steady changes in thinking about the way Economics is taught? If the [...]
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 assembled to fight the economic crisis, or as they call it, the fire that engulfed [...]
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 at MIT, is an extremely valuable, accessible and thought- provoking book for those of us [...]
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 was delighted to notice last year that they’d brought out a new book, ‘How Money [...]
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 of economic concepts, the ability to set up economic reasoning and the transferability of these [...]
GCSE Business for Edexcel, Paul Hoang, Margaret Ducie, Sam Cleary, Anforme, 2017, 140 pages, £8.95 for single copies, £5.95 for bulk orders of 10 or more, ISBN: 978-1-78014-055-1
Offering extraordinary value for money, this book provides clearly laid out coverage of the relevant topics and a wealth of information. There are lots of exam style questions, most of which are built around case [...]
EconoME resources, Bank of England (April 2018)
These free resources are aimed at non-specialist teachers of 11-16 year olds as part of the Bank of England’s commitment to fostering better economic understanding amongst the general population. They are primarily intended for use [...]
The Future of Capitalism, Paul Collier, Penguin Random House UK, 2018, 248 pages, hardback £20, ISBN 978-0-241-33388-4
The author describes this as a personal testament; certainly it is not an economics textbook. His 2007 best seller, The Bottom Billion, examined the reasons why so many countries still had large numbers of people [...]
How Business Works, Dorling Kindersley, 2017, £16.99.
Described on the cover as ‘a graphic guide to business success’, this book covers all of the main concepts in business which appear in most exam boards. It does so by dividing the book into [...]
The Economy, Economics for a Changing World, The CORE team, Oxford University Press, 2017, 1123 pages, £39.99, ISBN 978-0-19-881024-7.
OK,OK, I know you’re not going to read 1123 pages. I know you are not going to pay £40. But if you want to know what’s happening to the teaching of Economics and you haven’t [...]
Meltdown, Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik, Penguin Press, £14.99, 2018, ISBN 9781786492241
When I picked up this book, with its tagline of ‘why our systems fail and what we can do about it’, I was unsure of what to expect. There are plenty of ‘failures’ and potential [...]
WTF: What have we done? Why did it happen? How do we take back control?, Robert Peston, Hodder and Stoughton, November 2017, £20, ISBN: 9781473661295.
As the he was the economics journalist who broke the Northern Rock story in 2007, I have always encouraged A Level students to follow Robert Peston on the BBC, subsequently ITV, through his blog, and [...]
Resource Alert: The Bank of England’s New ‘EconoME’ Resources
The EBEA’s Chair of Advocacy provides an initial review of the Bank of England’s new resources for schools aimed at improving economic literacy. These free resources are aimed at non-specialist teachers of 11-16 year olds [...]