Economics class: teaching ideas

Public sector versus private sector: The real political challenge in running the NHS

Labour markets: How to cut Britain’s rising welfare bill

Labour markets: Our workless young: a scandal we cannot ignore

Fiscal policy: How boxed in is Rachel Reeves by UK’s fiscal outlook?

Globalisation: UK plans possible retaliation if Trump puts tariffs on British goods

Price elasticity of supply: Heathrow expansion can support growth — with a long runway

Price mechanisms: Rice price rise pushes Japan to tap strategic reserves

Economic growth: Falling birth rates raise prospect of sharp decline in living standards

Commodity markets: The rising cost of a caffeine fix

Economic growth: UK economy’s 0.1% growth fails to hit forecasts

Labour market: How much sick pay is too much sick pay?

Aggregate demand: China to subsidise rice cookers and microwaves to boost consumption

Financial markets: UK mortgage approvals fall in November

International trade: Britain becomes first European nation to join Pacific trade bloc

Fiscal policy: Number of people caught in 60% ‘tax trap’ up 45% in two years

Market structures: Can nationalisation fix England’s rail network?

Trade: German gloom deepens as Trump tariff threat rattles exporters

Economic growth: UK economy stalls in third quarter

Fiscal policy: Podcast. Budget special: How will the UK secure growth?

Fiscal policy: How can Rachel Reeves fill the UK’s £40bn Budget gap?

Labour markets: Labour shortages squeezing UK food supply, warns dairy group Arla

Fiscal policy: UK government borrowing overshoots in blow to Rachel Reeves

Macroeconomic indicators: UK economy stagnated for second consecutive month in July

Demand and supply: UK retail sales boosted by warm weather in August

Price elasticity of demand: Eton College to pass on full cost of VAT on fees to parents

Labour markets. Podcast: Does pay transparency work?

Labour markets: ‘Insane’ pay rises for junior London lawyers raise concerns over culture

Price elasticity: Scarcity of organic cows puts pressure on UK milk supplies, warn experts

Demand for labour: UK’s gender pay gap will take decades to close at current rate

Price elasticity of demand: Labour to impose VAT on boarding as well as private school fees

Market structures: Labour plans to retain key private sector role in Britain’s nationalised railways

Demand and supply: UK rental costs rise at record 9.2%

Scarcity and choice: ‘It’s too wet’: UK food security at risk because of record rain, farmers warn

Fiscal policy: Searching in vain for the Laffer curve boost

Efficiency and productivity: Europe faces ‘competitiveness crisis’ as US widens productivity gap

Exchange rates: China props up renminbi ahead of leadership summit in March

Demand and supply: Royal Mail could cut deliveries to 3 days a week, says Ofcom

Development economics: America should not allow its trade programme with Africa to die

Market failure: UK to ban disposable vapes as Rishi Sunak warns of ‘endemic’ impact on youth

Labour markets: UK migration reforms will not end lower pay for foreign workers, says top policy adviser

Fiscal policy: Jeremy Hunt predicted to win multibillion-pound boost for tax cuts

Global economy: Chile

Market structures: Barclays and Santander announce cuts to UK mortgage rates

Monetary policy. Charles Goodhart: ‘We’re in for a fiscal crisis down the road and we don’t know how to solve it’

Government intervention film: How Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act changed the world

Labour market podcast: Rishi Sunak’s big fat Greek row

Fiscal policy podcast: Autumn Statement Reaction

Demand and supply: UK government to increase offshore wind subsidies by 66%

Competition: Local leaders seek to reverse 40 years of UK bus privatisation

Monetary policy: Russia tightens capital controls on western companies

Inflation: Millions of UK families could face cuts to value of their benefits next year

Demand and supply: The hard economic reality for anyone wanting to govern Britain

Market failure: Rishi Sunak considers move to ban smoking for next generation

Monetary policy: How long will the Bank of England keep interest rates high?

Fiscal policy: Is the state pension really ‘a Ponzi scheme’?

Labour markets: UK wages: which sectors are driving up pay?

The Global Economy: Vietnam

Podcast: Rishi Sunak’s dash for oil and gas

Video: Government Failure – Can UK childcare be fixed?

Monetary policy: Why are interest rate rises not taming inflation?

Privatisation versus nationalisation: Thames Water crisis could hit UK investment, ministers warn

Video: Business Objectives — Why did Carlyle’s CEO resign?

Video: Behavioural Economics — Are high petrol prices killing the American dream?

Video: Business Objectives — The ESG investment backlash begins to have an impact

Economic growth: UK economy returns to growth driven by consumer spending

Video: Public goods — When water security runs dry

Cartels: Saudi Arabia seeks to boost oil price with output cut of 1mn barrels a day

Demand and supply: Why Britain’s households should expect energy bills to remain high

Labour markets: UK haulage industry forced to train army of homegrown drivers to cope with Brexit

Market failure: Fish exports are a drop in the ocean next to overseas student fees

Costs and revenues: Pret A Manger to increase cost of its coffee subscription by 20%

Market structures: Elon Musk signals willingness to sacrifice Tesla margins for market share

Monetary policy: Andrew Bailey raises prospect of increased UK bank deposit protection

Monetary policy: Yikes! What should I do with my mortgage?

Economic cycle: Are Jeremy Hunt’s plans really a ‘Budget for growth’?

Fiscal policy: UK prosecutions of tax evasion enablers drop by 80 per cent

Demand and supply: Tesla touts cost efficiencies as it gears up for more affordable model

Scarcity: Podcast — Northern Ireland — Rishi Sunak’s big test

Market structures: Profit motive to return to British rail network as part of long-awaited shake-up

Production: Is the IMF right about the UK economy?

Aggregate demand: China’s record $2.6tn rise in savings fuels ‘revenge spending’ hopes

Fiscal policy: The US hit the debt ceiling. What happens next?

Demand and supply: Copper rallies on hopes of China economic rebound

Taxation: Scotland top-rate tax rises widen gap with rest of UK

Demand and supply: Why the price of oil has dropped despite new constraints on Russian supply

Tariff: Carmakers warn on EU tariffs threat to electric vehicle prices

Video: Trading blocs Part 2 — The Brexit effect: how leaving the EU hit the UK

Video: Trading blocs — The Brexit effect: how leaving the EU hit the UK

Podcast: economic growth — Jeremy Hunt’s sombre Autumn Statement

Demand and supply: UK house-buying demand falls at fastest pace since 2020 lockdown

Inflation: BoE outlines two bleak scenarios for taming inflation

Podcast: fiscal policy — Prime Minister Rishi Sunak

Market structures: Yorkshire Water to pay down almost £1bn in debt to settle regulatory case

Currency: Biden should act now on the wrecking-ball dollar

Unemployment: UK unemployment falls to lowest level since 1974

Video: Demand and supply — NZ housing — a canary in the coal mine?

Podcast: Fiscal policy — Truss vs the ‘anti-growth’ coalition

Podcast: Fiscal policy — Kwasi Kwarteng’s market meltdown

Video: Opportunity cost — Food and fuel compete for farmland

Balance of payments: UK’s yawning current account deficit raises financing risks

Video: Labour markets — Rising temperatures can prove fatal for farm workers

Video: Privatisation and Market Failure — Water: too precious to be just another commodity?

Fiscal policy: The mini-Budget is taking great risks with the public finances

Exchange rates: The bad news for the pound is not all in the price

Video: Externalities — Is luxury fashion resale losing some of its sparkle?

Video: Demand and supply — Can winemakers adapt to climate change?

Video: Demand and Supply — Music: the hot new asset class

Video: Synoptic — Can we avoid climate-related food shocks?

Demand and Supply: China’s ice cream brands outpace inflation with soaring prices

Market failure: Would carbon food labels change the way you shop?

Video: Market failure: Farming — the difficult first step towards net zero

Video: Business growth and demergers: The extraordinary Toshiba saga

Inflation: Boris Johnson makes boosting economic growth his top priority

Demand and supply: Price of UK pint up more than 70% since financial crisis

Market structures: Is the ‘subscription economy’ going to feel the Netflix effect?

Labour markets: Rise in UK minimum wage helped narrow inequality but failed to lift productivity

Regulation: Stagflation looms in UK as economic growth grinds to a halt

Inflation: Stagflation looms in UK as economic growth grinds to a halt

Monetary policy: Bank of England faces its biggest inflation challenge since independence

Living costs: Cabinet split on plan to cut UK food tariffs as grocery bills rise 5.9%

Exchange rates: Pound slides to weakest level since 2020 as British retail sales fall

Growth: Underlying UK wage growth lower than headline figures, think-tank warns

International trade: The UK is still wrestling with the incoherence of Brexit

Fiscal policy: Spring Statement: what’s in it for investors and householders?

Price mechanism: US farmers’ hands are tied as world braced for wheat shortfall

Externalities: We must pay the cost of carbon if we are to cut it

Unemployment: UK unfilled vacancies hit record as workers leave labour market

Budget surplus: Stronger UK public finances set to increase pressure on Rishi Sunak

Monopoly: English water companies face probe over sewage treatment

Financial markets: Cash Isas remain popular despite the drain of inflation

Market failure: Boris Johnson warns of UK energy price shock

Exchange rates: Turkish inflation hits 20-year high of 54%

Housing market: Asking prices for UK homes surge in February as demand rises

Merit goods: UK graduates to pay more as repayment threshold on loans lowered

Asymmetric information: Student loans — Should the Bank of Mum and Dad step in?

Real income: UK inflation climbs to 30-year high of 5.5%

Economic growth: UK price rises outpace wage growth despite labour shortages

Merit goods: NHS waiting lists will grow for 2 more years, health service admits

Monetary Policy: Bank of England’s Andrew Bailey dishes out tough love to British public

Aggregate demand: UK homeowners secure £800bn windfall with house price rise

Fiscal policy: Lower public borrowing gives Sunak room to stall national insurance rise

Government failure: Airlines forecast increased ‘ghost flights’ to retain UK landing rights

Labour market: Get ready for the four-day working week

Consumption: China’s record trade gap a symptom of struggle to rebalance its economy

Inflation: The fight over measuring UK inflation

Subsidy: Farm subsidy reform in England aiming to return land to nature

Market failure: North-south divide emerges as UK electric vehicle sales hit record high

Demand and supply: UK house prices rise at the fastest pace since 2006

Demand and supply: Champagne sparkles as low supply and fizzy demand boost prices

Demand and supply: Beware the property trap ensnaring young buyers

Monetary policy: Turkey’s lira tumbles after central bank cuts rates

Demand, supply: Coffee hits 10-year high as shipping bottlenecks squeeze supply

Demand, supply: Opec+ sticks with oil supply increase after US overture to Saudi Arabia

Aid and development: China cuts finance pledge to Africa amid growing debt concerns

Competition: Collapse of Bulb highlights failings of UK’s retail energy sector

Exchange rates: Euro hit by bets ECB monetary policy will diverge from major peers

Measuring National Income: UK statisticians juggle contradictory data on recovery from pandemic

Market failure: Windfalls for heavy industry in EU carbon scheme are a moral hazard

Fiscal policy: Sunak defies hawkish instincts to oversee massive expansion of state

Labour markets: Kellogg’s cereal strike is latest sign of pushback from US snack makers

Economic growth: Switch to value stocks to prepare for inflation

Inflation: German workers strike for higher pay as eurozone inflation surges

Demand and supply: BP service stations close as driver shortage hits UK fuel supplies

Inflation and monetary policy: Is it time for the Bank of England to start tightening monetary policy?

Government intervention in markets: US clean-energy blueprint contains 40% solar goal for 2035

Fiscal policy: Who are the winners and losers from the UK’s £12bn social care tax raid?

Fiscal policy: Rishi Sunak has strong fiscal cards waiting to be played

Employment and unemployment: Partisan fight over US labour market jolted by strong hiring data

Circular flow of income: Nissan unveils first UK battery factory in £1bn Sunderland plan

Demand and supply: Russian supply curbs exacerbate squeeze on European gas market

Government Intervention: Cost of polluting in EU soars as carbon price hits record €50

Inflation: UK inflation jumps to 2.1% and tops Bank of England target

Economic growth: The Fed risks reacting too slowly if inflation keeps rising

Market failure: UK carbon trading system likely to lead to government intervention, traders warn

Financial markets: UK government to sell next £1bn stake in NatWest

Fiscal policy: Gary Lineker in £4.9mn tax battle with HMRC over freelance earnings

Inflation: Inflation tests pricing power of global brands

Market structures: Ethiopian telecoms sell-off flops in wake of economic and security concerns

Exchange rates: Turks chase missing billions in foreign exchange reserves

Aggregate demand & supply: Global savers’ $5.4tn stockpile offers hope for post-Covid spending

Fiscal policy: The case for taxing the rich more

Demand & supply: Boris Johnson to announce £3bn shake-up of England’s bus network

Demand & supply: Investors see ‘gold rush on steroids’ for green battery metals

Fiscal policy: Japanese investors buy UK government bonds at record rate in early 2021

Fiscal Policy: ‘Stealth’ raid on income tax thresholds

Monetary and Fiscal Policy: Joe Biden’s $1.9tn package is a risky experiment

Demand & supply: Extra stamp duty holiday would raise house prices, say lawyers

Exchange rates: Pound hits $1.40 for first time since 2018 as vaccine boosts UK outlook

Demand & supply: White House scrambles to address global chip shortage

Competition policy: UK and EU to open probes into Nvidia’s $40bn acquisition of Arm

Market structure: UK watchdog to investigate Uber’s acquisition of Autocab

The financial sector: Nine banks ate into capital buffers under ECB’s pandemic relief

Inflation: Covid congestion raises the spectre of inflation

Fiscal policy: Biden to push $1.9tn stimulus for pandemic-battered US economy

International trade: African countries not ready to implement free trade from January

Economic development: West Africa vs Big Chocolate: Battle over price sours relations

Unemployment: Ineos abandons Britain to build flagship off-roader in France

Demand, supply, elasticities: Lithium market recharges as electric vehicle sales rise

Economic development: Business groups call on Johnson to rethink overseas aid cuts

Fiscal policy: Sunak funds schools and police in last hurrah before tax rises

Inflation: UK’s poor GDP performance rooted in weak household spending

Demand and supply: UK set to ban sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030

Aggregate demand/supply: UK shipyards owner looks beyond building vessels

Elasticity of demand: Pandemic sets off a scramble to snap up outdoor heaters

Monetary policy: The great MMT debate, again

Demand and supply: Beijing’s first bond offer to US investors draws record demand

The housing market: Banks rebuff Boris Johnson’s call for low-deposit mortgages

Labour markets & employment: Britain’s over-50s rethink plans as virus takes toll on retirement

Supply and demand: Harley-Davidson to pull out of world’s largest motorcycle market

CAP: Ministers seek to plug subsidy gap for struggling English farmers

Shares: Peloton shares reach high as more users take up home workouts

Aggregate demand: What the latest data on activity are signalling

Exchange rates: Sterling’s faded illusion of sovereignty

Development: Pandemic brings Italy’s black market out of the shadows

Economic development: Latin America’s taxing problem

Competition/market structures: Pain in Spain for telecoms groups as competition heats up

Economic Development: Zambia feels the way for distressed nations in seeking debt talks

Distribution of Income and Wealth: Spain to push through minimum income guarantee to fight poverty

Trading blocs: The chain of events that led to Germany’s change over Europe’s recovery fund

Public goods: Any Covid-19 vaccine must be treated as a global public good

Inflation: A return to 1970s stagflation is only a broken supply chain away

Theory of the firm: Ryanair to axe up to 3,000 jobs as it warns over slow recovery

Competition & regulation: Britain’s private schools warned against fee collusion

Price mechanism: Oil-producing nations grapple with latest price fall

Money: Rishi Sunak prepares to offer 100% guarantees on small business loans

Market failure: Boris Johnson can now redeem his debt to the NHS

Circular Flow of Income: India’s exporters face crunch as coronavirus pummels economy

Market structures: British Airways to suspend more than 30,000 staff amid coronavirus crisis

Unemployment: US jobless claims surge to record 3.3m as America locks down

Exchange rates: Why the Fed is trying to tame the dollar

Oligopoly: Eight days that shook the oil market — and the world

Employment: Germany’s minimum wage boosted productivity but hit small companies

Labour markets, government intervention: Income inequality increases in UK

Aggregate demand: Italy unveils €3.6bn stimulus to tackle coronavirus

Elasticities, Market Structures: Can £5bn revitalise England’s bus services?

Economic growth and development: Restructuring Argentina’s debt will require IMF support

Market structures: Climate change and the prisoner’s dilemma

Labour markets: The unions taking on the gig economy and outsourcing

Demand & Supply, Exchange Rates, Elasticity: Commodities may not stay cheap

Monetary policy: US debt investors seek protection against inflation

Market/government failure: Air quality remains dangerously low

Supply side policy, capital flows: Tide turns for Polish émigrés

Distribution of income and wealth: Before we soak the rich

Supply & demand: Fortnum & Mason boosted by demand for loose leaf tea 

Macroeconomic objectives: Iran’s economy strangled under US sanctions

Financial markets, exchange rates: Dollar shortage shakes confidence in Lebanon’s banks

Competition and market structures: Sony pulls plug on PlayStation Vue

Developing economies: Ethiopia’s path to prosperity is opening up

Economic Growth, macroeconomic objectives: UK economy to avert recession

Demand & supply, taxation: UK’s slowing housing market hits stamp duty

Market failure: French tobacconists fear business will go up in smoke

Objectives of firms: The limits of the pursuit of profits

Labour markets: How does British Airways pilot pay compare?

Introductory economics: China acts on pork prices 

Fiscal policy: Javid shift in strategy after decade of austerity

Economic cycles: A long economic recovery is not necessarily a better one

Demand and Supply, Market Structures: Iran warns Opec ‘might die’

Trade policies and negotiations: Mexico ratifies Nafta’s replacement

Economic development: CDC to invest $300mn in Africa’s power networks

Allocation of resources: Old economists can teach us new tricks

Financial markets: China dumps US Treasuries

Allocation of resources: EBRD mulls sub-Saharan Africa loans

Demand and supply: Iran’s economy slumps on US sanctions

Circular flow of income: Fear over UK’s low national savings rate

Financial markets: US mortgage reform

Macroeconomic policy: UK inflation rises 1.9%

Money: The continued appeal of cash

Monetary policy: Monetary policy has run its course

Inflation: UK basket gains popcorn

Balance of payments: US trade deficit

Financial markets: Zimbabwe’s currency reforms criticised

Externalities and traffic congestion: Luxembourg tackles congestion

Economic growth and development: IMF funds Ecuador

Demand and supply, externalities: university applications rise

Trade: China’s economy slows

Market structures, nationalisation: rail privatisation

Trade, balance of payments: service exports

Exchange rates and Brexit

The price of fish farms

Demand & Supply: stock markets tumble

Development, exchange rates: African loans

Productivity: zero workforce growth

Government intervention: tech regulation

Demand & Supply, commodities: oil price fall

Market failure: wind and solar costs

Supply and demand: oil volatility

Supply and demand: chip prices

Exchange rates/balance of payments: depreciation dangers

Price determination: vanilla

Subsidies: UK farmers prepare for Brexit

Technological innovation: e-scooter rentals

Public finances: UK near bottom of IMF league

Markets, supply/demand: cocoa prices

Labour markets: Amazon pay rise 

Fed interest rate impact

The impact of migration

Low wage growth

Brexit uncertainty

Coca-Cola, Costa and economies of scale

The end of QE

Oligopolies and price discrimination

UK productivity

Coffee shops and market entry

Argentina hikes interest rates

Reversing QE

Privatisation and nationalisation

Audit monopolies

Child mortality and development

China’s household debt

Trade policies and anti-dumping

IMF, Kenya and economic policy

German trade

Sterling weakness

British manufacturing recovery

France’s declining fertility

Venezuela’s imploding economy

Measuring GDP

Inflation climbs to 3.1%

Venezuela debt: US, Russia and China play for high stakes

Productivity, smartphones and the crisis of attention

Diesel taxes

Agriculture and trade after Brexit

Monetary policy uncertainty

Natural monopolies and regulation

Richard Thaler and behavioural economics

EU fines Scania for price-fixing cartel

Monarch airline’s failure

Bank of England and Brexit

Brexit-free trade illusions

Supply and demand for coal

Bank of England interest rates debate

Amazon and food retail competition

Brexit and the generational divide: a price worth paying?

EU-Japan trade: the shift in commerce 

Retail sales: how external factors influence demand