Step one
Joris Tieleman and Sam de Muijnck, relatively veteran Rethinking Economics activists, have just produced a guide to economics curriculum design: Economy Studies: A Guide to Rethinking Economics Education. The Mint …
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A Name With No Name
Danielle Guizzo looks at how economics made the work of academic giant Barbara Wootton, invisible. Barbara Wootton, was a leading name in the areas of Sociology and Criminology in post-war …
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Mental health problems cost UK economy at least £118 billion a year – new research
Mental health problems cost the UK economy at least £117.9 billion annually according to a new report published today by Mental Health Foundation and the London School of Economics and Political Science …
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Investment in languages education could return double for UK economy
An increase in secondary school pupils learning Arabic, Mandarin, French or Spanish could boost the UK economy by billions of pounds over 30 years, according to new research. The study …
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The Circular Economy and Electronics
The last couple of decades have witnessed an explosion in electronic consumer products. Our lives are now full of devices from smartphones to laptops, speakers, TVs, wearables, battery packs, and chargers …
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Report: ‘Throwaway global economy’ is fuelling climate change
The ‘throwaway global economy’ is fuelling climate change, according to a new report from Circle Economy, showing more than half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials have been consumed since the 2015 …
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Care and a significant consideration
Verity Bastion worries about lessons learnt and loneliness. I find it hard to keep up with Crispin McDonal, my former star pupil and finance wizard. He is now all over …
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UW Economists Question Current Anti-Money Laundering Measures
It’s not that professors in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wyoming are involved in money laundering, but they are — sort of. Economists Chian …
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Child labour on the rise for the first time since 2000
Child labour has increased to 160 million – the first rise in two decades – and that number could swell by millions more because of the effects of the coronavirus …
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Colonial economics
Post pandemic, which issues need to be added and reincorporated into the development economics curriculum? Kevin Deane asks. There is a strong argument that Covid is not an external shock …
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