Economics Roundtable
-- Recession? --
Are back-to-back quarters of 0.6% GDP growth a recession? The blogs weigh in at Recession?
Will a 2% Fed Funds rate help? Fed Watch
-- Economic Principals --
David Warsh reports the latest on this year's free agent season for academic economists.
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-- Statistics --
137 Commentators
As of 2/19/08, the Economics Roundtable includes
137 commentators.
Economics in the News
"Geoff Riley (Head of Economics at Eton College) provides a regular commentary on economics issues and trends - essential daily reading for all economics students and teachers.”
May 9, 2008, 10:09 am, 289436
If you do not have a postal option available please email in your essay to geoff@tutor2u.net ahead of Monday’s deadline
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May 9, 2008, 10:14 am, 289435
The Financial Times reports today that the pop star Madonna is “endorsing the sell-on of concert tickets, condemned by some concert promoters as scalping or touting, by making two leading companies...
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May 9, 2008, 10:19 am, 289434
Yes says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in his piece in the Telegraph today arguing that the UK economy might have been dealt a much tougher blow from the fallout from the credit crunch had we been locked...
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May 8, 2008, 2:16 pm, 288851
How many gangmasters are there operating in the UK? Does the Licensing Authority really have a proper handle on the scale of workers being organised and often exploited by gangmaster...
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May 7, 2008, 10:08 pm, 288460
This looks like a tremendous event at the LSE in a couple of weeks
Why Economics Matters
Date: Tuesday 20 May 2008
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speakers: Professor Orazio...
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May 7, 2008, 8:26 pm, 288405
We asked a thousand people and most of them said ...... there is trouble ahead! Consumer confidence took a further nose-dive last month according to fresh data from the Nationwide Building...
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May 7, 2008, 6:11 pm, 288305
Chris Anderson’s book “The Long Tail” was a best seller and highly influential read a couple of years ago ...it certainly challenged my long held views about the nature of scarcity in an increasingly...
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May 7, 2008, 6:25 pm, 288304
Two years on from the liberalisation of the postal services industry, has this supply-side policy to make the market more contestable made any noticeable difference to the quality of service, prices...
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May 7, 2008, 2:15 pm, 288203
Yes according to economist Roger Bootle writing in the latest edition of the Deloitte Economic Review and reported in this article from the Financial Times.
“Britain is headed for its highest...
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May 7, 2008, 2:47 pm, 288202
Two news stories catch the eye today with respect to demerit goods.
Firstly, the government plans to reclassify cannabis as a class B drug - but will this have any impact on its levels of use?...
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