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Elasticity and Inelasticity
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title: Elasticity and Inelasticity
description: The formula for elasticity is straightforward. It can be found by dividing the percentage change in quantity demanded by the percentage change in price. However, this simple formula (known as the point elasticity formula) yields a different answer depending on which point is chosen as the first point. Sometimes, this is undesirable behavior. To correct for this, economists also use a formula for elasticity shown below. This is known as the midpoint formula (sometimes also called arc elasticity). This is a very similar formula to that for elasticity of substitution, cross elasticity of demand and income elasticity of demand. \begin{equation*} \text{Elasticity}= \frac{\frac{\mathit{Q}_{2}-\mathit{Q}_{1}}{(1/2)*(\mathit{Q}_{2}+\mathit{Q}_{1})}}{\frac{\mathit{P}_{2}-\mathit{P}_{1}}{(1/2)*(\mathit{P}_{2}+\mathit{P}_{1})}} = \frac{\text{%}\Delta\mathit{Q}}{\text{%}\Delta\mathit{P}} \end{equation*} Elasticity is a general term, but forms the basis of several important concepts in economics. For more information on these more specific concepts, please see the other terms that have been linked in this article.
disambiguating description: Elasticity refers to how much a business, a producer, or a consumer changes its amount of goods demanded or supplied as a result of price and income fluctuation. It provides answers to some useful questions, such as how much more or less a product will sell if the price changes. It’s defined for both quantity demanded (price elasticity of demand) and supplied (price elasticity of supply).
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Behavioral Economics
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description: In classical economics, decision making is seen as black and white. People make optimal decisions that always provide them with the best available results in terms of satisfaction and benefit. Additionally, people are assumed to have perfect information. Behavioral economics, however, shows how this often isn’t the case, and that humans also make decisions that are contrary to their self-interest or which don’t maximize benefits. It then tries to explain why this is the case. Behavioral economics concepts are used extensively by businesses to induce behavior in customers. Product designs, special deals, sales, and advertising campaigns are all ways that businesses try to persuade customers to buy or use a certain product. Much research has gone into understanding what factors can convince people to buy something, or what might alter their decision. One example of this is the “decoy effect”. Often, a business will want to sell a certain item - let’s consider the example of a large soda. By including a “medium” size soda that is smaller than the large, but only at a slight price discount, more people will purchase the large soda since that seems like a better deal. There are many other examples of how behavioral economics concepts are used by companies, advertising campaigns, product design, and more to try and induce specific choices. Behavioral economics is closely related to psychology, and as such benefits greatly from collaboration with psychologists or other experts who understand human behavior. In fact, economics itself is built on models of human behavior as participants in markets (which are usually not entirely accurate, as we’ve described above). Psychology, meanwhile, has a long tradition of understanding human behavior not from mathematical models, but from real-world experiments. Bringing the two fields together and updating economic models with more realistic representations of human behavior is an ongoing process. But, it’s one that will continue to i…
disambiguating description: This subdiscipline of economics studies how decisions made by individuals and institutions are influenced by psychological, cognitive, emotional, cultural, and social factors. It is concerned with understanding how people actually make decisions, rather than assuming that the decision-making process is perfectly rational.
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Comparative Advantage
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description: These concepts are often used in reference to international trade, and are perhaps best demonstrated in that context. Consider two nations - we’ll call them Atlantis and Narnia. Below, we will demonstrate that even with absolute advantages in both goods, Atlantis is better off if it cooperates with Narnia and trades - despite being able to make more of both goods than Narnia can. Suppose that there are only two goods, smartphones and bread. Also assume that each country has 10-hour work days. Atlantis, being a very advanced nation, can produce 15 smartphones per hour, or 150 smartphones per day (since we assume 10-hour work days). It can also make 10 loaves of bread per hour, or 100 loaves of bread per day. Meanwhile, Narnia is not as efficient; it can make 3 smartphones in an hour, or 30 per day, and it can produce 6 loaves of bread per hour, or 60 per day. Smartphones Bread (loaves) Atlantis 150 100 Narnia 30 60 It is clear from the table that Atlantis has an absolute advantage in both goods. That is, Atlantis can produce more than Narnia no matter which good it produces. Let’s consider a scenario where each country uses the 10 hours it has in a day to produce its own goods. How much can each country make on its own? We can use the table above to draw a Production Possibilities Frontier for both countries and answer this question: Figure 1: PPFs for Atlantis and Narnia Any point on this line for either country represents a product mix it can produce on its own. For example, if both countries decide to split their time equally between each good, then Atlantis can produce 50 loaves of bread and 75 smartphones; meanwhile Narnia can produce 30 loaves of bread and 15 smartphones. This gives a total of 80 loaves of bread and 90 smartphones produced in total with both countries in autarky. But, can we do better? If the countries can trade, can we improve overall economic welfare? To answer this question, let’s examine comparative advantage by looking at opportunity costs…
disambiguating description: Comparative advantage means that you can produce a good or service at a relatively lower opportunity cost than that of your competitors. Comparative advantage is different from absolute advantage, which means you can produce a given item more efficiently than someone else.
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Asset
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description: There are two types of assets, tangible and intangible, which are themselves made up of subclasses. Of the tangible variety, most commonly you’ll hear about current and fixed assets. Current assets refer to things that can be consumed, exhausted or sold. Examples of current assets are cash, stock, and marketable securities. Fixed assets meanwhile are trickier to convert into cash, like land, buildings, equipment and machinery. Fixed assets are used by businesses over a long period of time and they play a crucial role in a company's long-term operations. While they may not be as easily converted into cash as current assets, they hold significant value and contribute to the overall worth of a business. Examples of fixed business assets include real estate, manufacturing equipment, vehicles owned, office buildings, etc. These economic assets are not meant to be sold, but rather they generate revenue by helping the business perform its operations. In contrast to tangible assets, intangible assets don't have a physical form. They are more like ideas or concepts, making it difficult to determine their value accurately. This difficulty sometimes leads to disagreement between the value a company claims it has and its actual market value. Examples of intangible assets include patents, trademarks, goodwill, copyright, trade names, and other intellectual property. For instance, patents offer legal protection for inventions and innovations, giving exclusive rights to the inventor for a specific time period (to distribute and use the invention). However, trademarks are unique symbols, logos, or names that can distinguish a company's products or services from others in the market, and they are valuable assets that help create brand recognition and customer loyalty. Just like how certain logos and colors are known by almost everyone, like the specific dark blue associated with Yves Klein. Meanwhile, goodwill in economics refers to the positive associations that consumers have abou…
disambiguating description: An asset is ANY resource that produces positive economic value for its owner - its owner being its owner as a result of a past event, most likely a transaction.
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Econometrics
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description: Econometrics is a relatively recent revolution. In the past, economists’ ability to test economic relationships was severely limited, since they had to work by hand. Large datasets make working by hand nearly impossible, even for the most simple statistics concepts. Thankfully, the advancement of technology has allowed today’s economists to work with large datasets, complicated models, and cutting-edge statistics using software tools such as R, Python, and Stata, to name but a few. But not every econometrician uses a dataset at all times. Theoretical econometrics is closely related to statistical theory, and studies estimators and other theoretical relationships. This is an important process that helps improve the efficiency of later economic research by discovering better statistical methods to use. Clearly then, this process of searching for better methods uses math and statistics techniques intensively. Key to this theoretical process is the search for unbiased, efficient and consistent estimators. These qualities are desirable in statistics because they usually make an estimator suitable for inference, and so let us “prove” economic relationships via known math and statistics results. <11an>limit:2;categories:Courses|Programs;disciplines:Econometrics, Statistics and Quantitative Methods (JEL C)</11an> The applied branch of econometrics, meanwhile, uses data to describe and predict economic phenomena. An example: a bank might rely on a model using customer characteristics to predict how many customers will default on their debt. Such models are used widely in the credit industry. To illustrate further, an econometrician can build this model using explanatory variables like age, debt to income ratio, credit rating, and employment status in a regression. Once the model is estimated, they can use statistical tests to learn about the relationships among these variables. For example, economic theory tells us that we expect rates of default to decrease if someone has a…
disambiguating description: Pioneered by Ragnar Frisch, Jan Tinbergen, Lawrence Klein and Simon Kuznets, econometrics is the application of statistical models to economic data. Its aim is the quantitative analysis of economic phenomena, either theoretically or with real data. This gives empirical rigor to economics, and can possibly “prove” economic relationships or discover new ones.
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Capital
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description: Types of capital Financial capital Capital is most commonly thought of as money, specifically money used to buy other goods which are then sold for a profit. An example of this would be the money that a business uses to buy its products, such as a retail business buying its clothes. More generally, financial capital can be thought of as assets a company needs to provide its products for sale. Capital goods These are things which are used to make goods or services, and as such can be a variety of goods. For example, tools would be a capital good to a handyman; oil rigs would be a capital good for an oil company; wind turbines would be a capital good for an energy company. Capital in this sense is considered one of the major “factors of production” (alongside labor) and is a foundational part of many economic models. Natural capital/ecological capital Didn’t think the world had capital? Think again. Natural capital is natural resources, such as air, water, and organisms. This type of capital is arguably the most important, as it includes things like clean drinking water and fertile soil which the world gives us and makes civilization - and life in general - possible. The future of natural capital is dependent on a healthy ecosystem, making the fight against climate change and environmental destruction all the more crucial. Social capital Something a little more abstract, social capital includes intangible things like the relationships between people (i.e. networking), as well as cultural heritage and identity. However, it also refers to more tangible things, such as shared public spaces. Human capital Human capital is perhaps the most self-explanatory of these terms. You have human capital, and so does this writer, because our knowledge enables us to perform labor and therefore helps the economy grow. Instructional capital A controversial definition as it is sometimes thought of as an extension of human capital, this could include the learning materials which make edu…
disambiguating description: The term capital is used differently in different economic contexts. The common theme is that capital usually refers to some productive asset or capability that can be used to contribute to the economy. Below, we will detail some of these different meanings.
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The History of Economic Thought
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title: The History of Economic Thought
description: Economic thought has developed over time in a historical context. It can be argued that Economics has always been a philosophy rather than a Science. This is clearly evident from Greek, Chinese and Indian Economic thought. However, in the latter part of the 19th century Mathematics became the dominating force in Economics. This pivotal transformation of a philosophy into a mathematical subject, with the birth of neo-classical economics, had profound consequences for the analysis of the actions and inter-actions of human beings, and for policy debates about the role of the state in regulating national and international markets. Neoclassical economics has emphasised the rational behaviour of self-interested individuals and largely ignored the fact that humans are in essence part of nature, which the philosopher economists of Ancient Greece recognised. In recent years, aspects of economic thought have begun to make use of the insights of biological sciences. For information on how the courses work, and a link to our course demonstration site, please click here. Certification To earn credit (CATS points) for your course you will need to register and pay an additional £10 fee for each course you enrol on. You can do this by ticking the relevant box at the bottom of the enrolment form or when enrolling online. If you do not register when you enrol, you have up until the course start date to register and pay the £10 fee. For more information on CATS point please click on the link below: http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/studentsupport/faq/cats.php Coursework is an integral part of all online courses and everyone enrolled will be expected to do coursework, but only those who have registered for credit will be awarded CATS points for completing work at the required standard. If you are enrolled on the Certificate of Higher Education you need to indicate this on the enrolment form but there is no additional registration fee. Assignments are not graded but are marked either pass or f…
disambiguating description: This course evaluates the development of economic thought through the eyes of Greek, Chinese, Indian and European traditions before exploring economic thought in the context of the 20th century. The course is historical in content and international in perspective allowing students to develop a critical understanding of the influence of evolving economic thought on contemporary global economics.
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Top 10 Journals of Finance
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description: Browse our job listings for economics opportunities 1. Journal of Finance Published by Wiley. The official publication of The American Finance Association, which publishes English-language research in all areas of finance. It is one of the most highly cited and broadly read journals in the field. It reaches over 8,000 academics, professionals, libraries and institutions around the world, and is published six times a year. 2. The Review of Financial Studies Published by Oxford Academic. Covering both theoretical and empirical work in finance, the Review publishes high-quality papers which are immediately relevant to the field of finance. It interprets finance as including 'the interface between finance and economics.' It is published once a month. 3. Journal of Financial Economics Published by Elsevier. A top-tier journal which accepts empirical and analytical papers, particularly in the areas of capital markets, financial institutions, corporate finance, corporate governance, and the economics of organizations. It focuses on 'research in the area of... the theory of the firm', and is published monthly. <11an>limit:2;categories:jobs|courses|conferences|Professor;disciplines:Financial Economics (JEL G)</11an> 4. Journal of Accounting and Economics Published by Elsevier. A journal which focuses on the interface between economic theory and the practice of accounting, particularly in how economic analyses can be applied to accounting problems. It covers the role of accounting within firms, the information content and role of accounting numbers in capital markets, the role of accounting in financial contracts and monitoring agency relationships, determining accounting standards, theories of accounting firms, and government regulation of corporate disclosure and the accounting profession. It is published bimonthly. 5. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis Published by Cambridge. Covering theoretical and empirical research, particularly regarding the topics of corp…
disambiguating description: It's important to keep your finger on the pulse of the latest updates in your field. Otherwise your knowledge could be out of date and your research won't be be topically informed. The finance journals listed here are some of the best in the English-speaking world, offering the latest insights into finance, economics, accounting and business. If you're studying or working in the field of finance, here's our list of the top finance journals you should be reading.
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The Economist's Decline
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title: The Economist's Decline
description: Economists, so the story goes, had successfully grasped the essence of human behaviour: rational, and, therefore, highly predictable. With this discovery, an age-old question whose answer for millennia had eluded humanity was finally laid to rest. Where philosophers, psychologists, and sociologists had failed, economists had struck gold. They had cracked it. As a result, imperfect theories - as economic theories inherently are - started to be treated as laws of nature, like facts, and confidence among economists erred towards hubris. A sense of exclusivity pervaded the field, an unspoken agreement that outsiders were unwelcome, and their contributions unneeded. Economists preferred to work in isolation, adding to what they saw as a body of incrementally growing objective knowledge. When called upon, politicians typically assimilated their prescriptions - who were they to contest it? - and a docile public simply stood by, watching on in ignorant bliss. How could it be any other way? To the untrained, the language of economists is enough to render any growth-guaranteeing model incomprehensible. Indeed, the extent that their work is misunderstood is shocking - Brits were famously unable to distinguish debt from deficit despite enduring waves of austerity justified, in part, by both. Thus, for much of their legitimacy economists have relied upon blind faith, an investment the masses have, for a long time, been more than happy to make. It’s basically a science after all! <11an>limit:2;categories:workshops;disciplines:Economics</11an> A discipline in crisis In the last 10 years, however, things have changed, and in this era defined by populist, anti-establishment politics, economists’ time in the sun looks to be drawing to a close - for the time being at least. Reliance on their theories is withering, and general trust in their practice has waned. Politicians, clearly, have distanced themselves from economic aides. Gone are the days when leaders swore allegiance to econom…
disambiguating description: The reputation gained by economists has been a remarkable feat of PR; a branding job like no other. Quite how it developed remains a mystery, some inexplicable sleight-of-hand. Its consequence, however, is far easier to discern: in the minds of many, economics came to be thought of as a science. Removed from its rough prediction roots, it became a discipline of watertight theory, with a methodology capable of unearthing indisputable truths.
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The Challenges of Microfinance
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description: Check out our economics job listings Rebranded as microcredit and more recently, financial inclusion, it has come to dominate the social investment sector, acquiring something of a cult following in the process. Described as transformative, and touted a panacea by its loyalists, the craze has persisted despite growing academic evidence questioning its efficacy. In some ways, such loyalty is unsurprising. There is little shortage of inspiring anecdotes of hardworking individuals pulling themselves up by their bootstraps having put their meagre micro-loan to exceptionally good use. These stories are uplifting and it’s tempting - and all too easy - to conclude that they’re typical of recipients of microfinance. And yet, when the data has been assessed - of which, it should also be said, there is not a huge amount - the results have been inconclusive, at best. Empirically speaking, a resounding endorsement of microfinance is impossible; the research simply isn’t there. ‘On current evidence, the best estimate of the average impact of microcredit on the poverty of clients is zero’ declared development economist David Roodman. The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) has expressed similar reservations. Commenting on a systemic literature review into microfinance it concluded that ‘no clear evidence yet exists that microfinance programmes have positive impacts’, also stating that the zealous support it receives is based on ‘foundations of sand’. It’s certainly curious that although formal, government-backed microfinance initiatives are now widely available across much of the developing world, a huge number of loan sharks and predatory lenders still operate in parallel. Surely if microfinance is failing to compete with informal lenders, it’s not functioning as intended? Here the problems it's encountered are explored in an attempt to better grasp why a seemingly so-well-intentioned endeavour has reportedly been so badly misfiring. The issues There are a numbe…
disambiguating description: Since its inception in the 1970s, microfinance has become the darling of development organisations the world over - the idea with the potential to save the planet’s poor. Pioneered by Bangladeshi social entrepreneur and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus, it provides the financially marginalized with banking services that, given their impoverishment, would otherwise be out of reach. Such provision, its proponents claim, empowers the poor to take control of their own lives and plot their own path out of poverty - an antidote that is humane, retains the dignity of it recipients, and is lucrative. Aside from bank accounts and insurance, it is mostly implemented in the form of microloans.
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Data Mining and Applications Graduate Certificate
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title: Data Mining and Applications Graduate Certificate
description: You Will Learn Use statistical methods to extract meaning from large datasets Develop and use predictive models and analytics Understand and use strategic decision-making applications Plan your Data Mining and Applications Graduate Certificate road-map The certificate is designed to be completed in nine months, but you may take up to three years to complete it. Courses are available during Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer quarters: Autumn Quarter: STATS191, STATS202 Winter Quarter: STATS216, STATS290 Spring Quarter: STATS315B Summer Quarter: STATS216V Note: Course offerings may be subject to change. You do not need to enroll in the certificate to take the courses. You may enroll in any courses if you meet its prerequisites. Who Should Apply Strategy managers Scientific researchers Medical researchers Social sciences researchers Data analysts and consultants Advertising and Marketing professionals Earning the Certificate Students are required to take either STATS202 or STATS216 as their first course, completing with a B+ or better before moving on to the remaining courses. Only one of STATS202 or STATS216 can count towards the certificate. All other courses must be completed with a B or better to earn the certificate award. Begin your certificate by taking STATS202 or STATS216 and receive a grade of B+ or better to continue the program, subject to prerequisites Take all courses for graduate credit and a grade Courses must be taken for 3 units of credit to qualify for certificate application Prerequisites Introductory courses in each of the three following areas: statistics or probability, linear algebra, computer programming (E.g. STATS 60, MATH 51, CS 105 or equivalent.) A conferred Bachelor’s degree with an undergraduate GPA of 3.5 or better. Application To pursue a graduate certificate you need to apply.
disambiguating description: Data mining and predictive models are at the heart of successful information and product search, automated merchandizing, smart personalization, dynamic pricing, social network analysis, genetics, proteomics, and many other technology-based solutions to important problems in business. The Data Mining and Applications graduate certificate introduces many of the important new ideas in data mining and machine learning, explains them in a statistical framework, and describes some of their applications to business, science, and technology.
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Top jobs in international economics
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title: Top jobs in international economics
description: Browse our job listings in international economics 1. Work as an analyst One of the most popular career paths for economists generally, and for international economists specifically, is working as an analyst. This is a broad term which refers to anyone who performs work in which data is analysed in order to find particular patterns or to determine the best course of action. There are many types of analyst role which an international economist could take on – from financial analysts, who analyse businesses' equity and securities, to research analysts, who dig through data which is collected as part of a research project, to policy analysts, who work on investigating the effects of public policies to see whether they are effective. You could find a job as an analyst at a private think tank such as the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics, in a business such as Reis, a commercial real estate analytics company or for the federal or local government. 2. Work in the finance industry Another big employer of economists is the finance industry. Having a knowledge of international affairs and international money systems is highly useful in an increasingly international finance market. You might find work with a bank or an insurance company, working in a role such as financial analyst, financial management, or investment banker. Work in the finance industry tends to be very well compensated but is also high-pressure and with long working hours expected. If you love to throw yourself fully into projects and don't mind putting your social life on the back burner for a time, then you could find work in the finance industry to be very rewarding. However, if you're looking for a job with good work-life balance or a strong social outlook, this may not be the industry for you. <11an>limit:2;categories:jobs|conferences;disciplines:International Economics (JEL F)</11an> 3. Work for a global organisation A way to put your specialist knowledge of international economic…
disambiguating description: If you're an economist and you're thinking about working in the field of international economics, you might be wondering what kind of career options are open to you. Here are a few suggestions for jobs which you could do.
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What is the Green New Deal?
type: Article
title: What is the Green New Deal?
description: This changed in 2018, in America, when the cause was reinvigorated by political upstart and now darling of the left, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. Since sensationally winning New York’s 14th congressional district, Cortez has helped drag green policy, and the GND in particular, to the centre of the race for the Democrat Presidential nomination, gaining it international exposure. Meanwhile, weekly climate marches in many of the world’s major cities, the emergence of Greta Thunberg, and the action of groups like Extinction Rebellion have ensured the climate crisis now tops the news agenda everywhere. Rid of the reputation that had it dismissed as outlandish and unfundable, the GND has surged in popularity, and according to a YouGov Blue poll, its core policies enjoy support from a majority of Americans. Despite this fandom, detractors remain and its future is far from guaranteed. Indeed, upcoming elections in the US and UK, both certain to be polarised, will likely be pivotal in deciding whether this once fledgling and radical idea, seeded in a cramped inner-city living room, ever comes to maturation. Browse our job listings here What does it address? Quite simply: climate change and inequality. The GND is underpinned by two fundamental and interconnected observations. The first is that the current economic system is failing: the pockets of corporate polluters and billionaires are lined, while working class families, communities of colour, and other minorities are exposed to stagnant wages, toxic pollution, and dead-end jobs. The second recognises that the climate crisis magnifies these systemic injustices. Hard-hit communities are typically hit hardest by storms, droughts, flooding etc., as entrenched inequality deprives them of the resources required to adapt, cope and, in some cases, live. It follows that climate change and inequality can only be addressed together. This is the GND’s starting point. Through the mobilisation of vast public resources, the GND plans a tra…
disambiguating description: Although recently popularised in America, the Green New Deal (GND) was actually born during the early days of the 2007/8 financial crisis, in a small flat in London. The owner of the flat was analyst and foreseer of the crisis, Ann Pettifor; the occasion was a get-together of environmentalists and economists who had convened to draft a plan they hoped would both ‘transform the economy and protect the ecosystem’. Unfortunately for the London attendees, the prevailing political currents post crash proved especially hostile toward their idea, and prioritised, instead, principles of fiscal discipline and austerity, while largely sidelining issues of climate. And as long as such consensus reigned, the nascent GND was forced to lie dormant, far from political discourse.
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date modified: 2026-06-25T13:04:15Z
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The Economic Benefits of Renewable Energy
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title: The Economic Benefits of Renewable Energy
description: Compared to the roughly 76,000 jobs in coal in the US, renewable energy is a far greater employer. In the United States alone, the solar and wind industries employ a combined 360,000. As of 2017, less than a thousand people worked in the coal industry in the United Kingdom, and yet around 125,000 work in the renewable energy industries. It’s clear that right now, clean energy is a much more important employer than dirty coal. And these numbers aren’t set to decline; rather, most predictions suggest they will exponentially increase, particularly if countries stick to their given targets for renewable energies. The US Department of Energy wants to achieve 20% wind power by 2030. To get there, around 100,000 more turbines will be needed, which equates to roughly 500,000 more jobs. In 2019, resigning Prime Minister Theresa May set a target of zero emissions by 2030, another goal that will require substantial investment in sustainables. Climate change, as laid out by Senior Editor William Pearse in his piece on the destructive nature of the crisis, has the potential to destroy our economy in ways, and on scales, we are currently unable to fathom. Renewable energies are perhaps the most important answer to the question of how we reverse this trend and save not only our economies, but our entire world as we know it. The creation of jobs is an essential part of how renewables will do this. But that’s not all they’re going to do. Browse our job listings to find your perfect position Renewing the economy Traditionally, the use of fossil fuels has had a weighty financial advantage over renewables. In recent years, though, this has stopped being the case: solar and wind power especially have become financially competitive as suppliers of energy, and their increased usage across the world reflects this. Unfortunately, rather than becoming the replacement for unsustainable energy sources they were once hailed as, they have merely been used to supplement existing supplies as globa…
disambiguating description: In 2018, United States President Donald Trump said his administration was putting more coal miners back into work, having previously rattled on about how important coal jobs were to the future of the US. Perhaps it should be no surprise that his words were empty. The Trump administration has added a negligible 2,000 coal mining jobs since it took control, and whatever bump in coal production 2018 saw was quick to fade away. Obviously, Trump’s pledge to keep the industry alive was a political stunt, not a decision based on the economic realities of the moment; for if it had been, Trump wouldn’t have been talking about coal, but about renewable energy.
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date modified: 2026-07-07T10:21:05Z
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Russia's Economic Crisis
type: Article
title: Russia's Economic Crisis
description: The coup was prevented mainly due to a campaign of civil resistance led by newly elected Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Yeltsin had been the first person in history to resign from the Politburo voluntarily a few years earlier in 1987, and this garnered him a reputation as a rebel and an anti-establishment figure. His involvement in stopping the August Putsch, as it became known, solidified his popularity in the Soviet Union. Although Gorbachev was restored to his previous position as General Secretary of the Communist Party, his power was vastly diminished, the event having destabilised the already-fragile political situation in the USSR. Yeltsin was hailed as a hero and remained President after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991. After taking power, Yeltsin implemented a series of capitalist, post-Soviet reforms that privatised huge portions of Russia’s state-owned assets. Swept up in the rushing tide of selling were large portions of the industrial, energy, and financial sectors, marking the first time private ownership of property and enterprise had been legal since the Soviet Union’s creation in the early twentieth century. Massive privatisation in Russia caused two related effects. First, inequality rose sharply, coinciding with a GDP collapse and a decline in industrial output. Second, much of the diminishing wealth of Russian enterprises was concentrated in the hands of a few wealthy individuals – oligarchs – who became even richer, with company stocks of state-owned enterprises being transferred to criminal gangs and mob bosses. Predictably, those who suffered most were the regular citizens of Russia. Despite Yeltsin’s reputation as a charismatic rebel able to win over the hearts of the desperate Russian population, he wasn’t able to successfully run a market economy, and by 1999 his popularity had disintegrated to such an extent that he was forced to resign under intense internal pressure. Just how did it all go so wrong? Download the IN…
disambiguating description: In the early hours of the 21st of August 1991, a putsch in the Soviet Union against Mikhail Gorbachev failed, leaving three men dead and the country in a state of shock. The coup had been staged by members of the Soviet government who had taken issue with Gorbachev’s liberalising, democratising reforms, which he had been slowly putting into place over the previous few years. Those who had planned the attack then fled, and were all taken into custody within three days.
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The Job Boom in Northern Cities
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title: The Job Boom in Northern Cities
description: The job market in the North has become much more competitive and much more appealing to talented professionals. It was once London, and only London, that would attract interest from the hottest industry talent - but those days are gone. More professionals are open to living and working outside of the vibrant capital. Now, they're opting for the bigger bustling cities in the North such as Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh. So why is there a shift in attitudes? Browse our job listings for more opportunities Why professionals are looking north London has a lot to offer young workers, but the cost of living, overpriced accommodation and fast pace of the city can be avoided if workers look at northern cities instead. Young professionals can still enjoy city life at a fraction of the cost of living in London - in both money and time. Data suggests a first-time buyer will have to put down a deposit three times the national average, and this has been the main reason why job opportunities and competition for them is booming in the North. However, the job market in the North has not grown by demand alone: there are also many renowned and international companies looking for new staff in the North. This can be proven with a quick search for jobs in Manchester, or for jobs in the other northern powerhouse cities. Job applications: the facts and figures Research also backs up claims that the North has a healthy and prospering job market. One job search site has been digging around and analysing job opportunities and job applications made to companies in these northern cities. Its findings indicate that there really is a northern job boom. It found a number of cities had received significantly more job applications over the previous two-year period. These cities were Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Sheffield, Leeds and the two major Scottish cities, Glasgow and Edinburgh. In fact, Glasgow had one of the biggest rises in application with a staggering 41% incre…
disambiguating description: Brexit may have created a great deal of anxiety and business uncertainty, yet the UK is enjoying a golden period of employment. With more people in jobs and less out of work jobseekers, the UK is experiencing record employment levels not seen for decades. Some of this achievement is down to a job boom in the north of England and in the two biggest Scottish cities.
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Executive Compensation in the US
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title: Executive Compensation in the US
description: Fast forward to 2019, however, and a cocktail of increasingly unethical business practice, rank inequality, and precarious work have put paid to this reputation. Celebration has been replaced by suspicion, and where reverence was once felt there now exists resentment. It’s hardly surprising either: in a country where medical debt is approaching $81 billion, is it really possible to justify a $129.4 million salary like which was recently paid to Discovery Inc. CEO, David Zaslav? Free-market logic? Many rail against such incomes, branding them a symbol of all that’s wrong with the current economic and political systems. A smattering of others simply can’t make sense of them, the figures, somewhat perversely, too large to hold any value. And then there are the fundamentalist free-marketeers who wonder what all the fuss is about. While conceding that yes CEO pay may sound excessive, they defer to the authority of the market, in all its infallible glory, to explain that incomes are, in fact, exactly where it should be, and merely a reflection of CEOs’ worth. If a boss receives 300 times more pay than their average worker, it because their contribution adds 300 times more value to the company. And with that, typically, the conversation is over. Pushed for more detail, and they’ll likely bristle, accusing the questioner of engaging in unsavoury acts of envy and spite, which, by anyone’s standard is not a good look. ‘Work harder’ the more sassy among them sometimes like to part with, ‘maybe one day you can make it too’. But is this explanation really good enough? And are these ‘market-designated’ earnings actually fair? Suggestion that a CEO contributes 300 times more value to a company than a worker does sound, on first hearing at least, rather outlandish; they remain a human being after all. Is any one individual really that valuable? On investigation, and using the same free-market logic defenders of CEO pay rely on, the answer looks like a resounding no. In fact, three …
disambiguating description: Rising year on year, seemingly irrespective of company performance, US executive pay is eye-watering. For decades now, its increase - the small blip following the financial crisis aside - has been rapid. As their wallets have bulged, however, CEOs’ standing in the public eye, has fallen precipitously - plotted on a graph the relationship between the two would make a big X. And this is a significant shift. It wasn't long ago that the American entrepreneur was heralded as an almost mythical figure: the embodiment of all that was good about the country; the opportunity it afforded; the work ethic it rewarded; the fact that with the right attitude anything was possible. They were the American Dream in action; evidence that it could be made real.
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date modified: 2026-07-07T10:51:51Z
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Studying economics or business at Rotterdam Business School
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title: Studying economics or business at Rotterdam Business School
description: Within Rotterdam is a well regarded business school, the Rotterdam Business School, which is a part of the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences (RUAS). The business school offers bachelor's and master's degree programs as well as summer schools for training specific skills. Research specialities at Rotterdam Business School The Rotterdam Business School teaches and conducts all of its business in English, so it has a highly international outlook. As well as programs of study, there are many foreign exchange programs, so you can expect to meet people from all different countries and backgrounds there. There are students from over 50 countries at the school, and it has educational links to Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America. The focus is on real-life business skills rather than academic research, so the school teaches real business examples in its courses and partners with local and international businesses to teach the skills which are most available for starting out in businesses. There is also off-campus teaching as well as on-campus teaching, in which students are taken out into real business environments to learn directly rather than spending all of their time in the classroom. The aim is to get students out of university and into the workforce as smoothly as possible, whether the students are starting their own business, working for a small business, or joining a large multinational company. This very practical, hands-on approach may be appealing to those who like to do as well as to think, and who want opportunities to build networks and contacts in business while they are still studying. Programs at Rotterdam Business School There is just one bachelor program available, in International Business, which includes the study of languages like French, German, Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia), Mandarin, Japanese, Spanish, Russian or Dutch as well as business knowledge. That makes it ideal for students who want to travel the world or who are intereste…
disambiguating description: Rotterdam is a funky, modern city in the southern part of the Netherlands, taking less than an hour to travel to by train from the capital Amsterdam. Although Amsterdam might be the more famous tourist destination to those outside of Europe, Rotterdam has an edgy, exciting quality which makes it a highly desirable location for people to study.<o:p></o:p>
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Conference Scholarships to Fund Your Conference Trip
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title: Conference Scholarships to Fund Your Conference Trip
description: Check out our conference listings 1. Royal Economic Society Conference Grant Scheme Also aimed at economists is the RES conference grant, which is open to members who are presenting an economics paper or giving a talk at a conference. This funding available is up to £500 and applications for awards are accepted three times a year, in January, May, and September. Applicants will have to submit a summary of the impact the funding had on their trip and receipts detailing their expenditure. 2. International Atlantic Economic Society Scholarships Conference grants are available for economists living in Turkey, Eastern Europe, and Africa through the IAES to attend their yearly conference which is held in Europe. Awards of $250 to $350 are available, and recipients are invited to present a paper at the conference. 3. World History Association World Scholar Travel Fund Another organisation which offers a scholarship to cover the cost of attendance at its conference is the WHA, which gives funding primarily to academics from outside of North America to cover travel and other costs. In addition to this, they offer conference registration fee waivers for those who are in economic need. There's also a teacher scholarship which can fund a K-12 or community college teacher who is presenting a paper. 4. International Association for Energy Economics Student Scholarships Students in the field of energy economics who are from developing countries can apply for a scholarship from the IAEE to attend their conference. The scholarship covers travel and accommodation costs of up to $1750 as well as the cost of the conference registration fee. 5. American Political Science Association Travel Grants Those in political science who are US graduate students, international students in the US, international scholars, or unemployed members can apply for a APSA travel grant to attend the organisation's two yearly conferences. They also offer scholarships for Latino/a students and other minority g…
disambiguating description: If you've got a conference coming up that you want to attend, you'll know that there are lots of costs associated with a trip. You'll need to pay for travel and accommodation as well as the cost of conference attendance, which can all add up to a large amount of cash. Often, your department will pay for conference trips, but what if you run out of travel budget, or you don't have this option? In that case, you might want to consider applying for a conference scholarship. These are awards of money given to fund travel and attendance at a conference, usually for students or early career researchers. Often these scholarships will require that you're actually presenting at a conference, but not always - some have different criteria, such as where you are a resident and whether or not you're a student. In any case, there are large databases available to find scholarships for conference; here is a short list to get you started.
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Macroeconomics: An Introduction
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title: Macroeconomics: An Introduction
description: The global credit crunch of 2007-2008 has had significant implications for the lives of many people around the world. This short course aims to provide students with an understanding of conventional macroeconomic thinking so that they can understand the essential principles of how the macroeconomy of nation states functions in a globalised world. Once students have completed this course they will be better placed to understand the causes of inflation and unemployment and the relevance of government monetary and fiscal policy in dealing with such economic problems. Therefore, students will be able to use the knowledge gained to understand everyday macroeconomic events. Furthermore, students will have a solid foundation upon which they can progress to higher level studies in Macroeconomics as well as being able to apply the knowledge gained to other online courses such as ‘Globalisation'and the ‘New Economic Powers’. For information on how the courses work, and a link to our course demonstration site, please click here. Recommended reading To participate in this course you will need to have regular access to the Internet and you will need to buy the following book: Goodwin, N., Nelson, J.A., and Harris, J., Macroeconomics in Context 2nd edition (M.E. Sharpe, 2014) Certification To earn credit (CATS points) for your course you will need to register and pay an additional £10 fee for each course you enrol on. You can do this by ticking the relevant box at the bottom of the enrolment form or when enrolling online. If you do not register when you enrol, you have up until the course start date to register and pay the £10 fee. For more information on CATS point please click on the link below: http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/studentsupport/faq/cats.php Coursework is an integral part of all online courses and everyone enrolled will be expected to do coursework, but only those who have registered for credit will be awarded CATS points for completing work at the required standard. If…
disambiguating description: his course provides a detailed introduction to, and encompasses the fundamentals of macroeconomics. On completion of the course you will have the ability to critically assess real-world macroeconomic developments at first-year undergraduate level. Moreover, students will be able to better understand the material in other online economics courses such as the ‘New Economic Powers'and ‘Globalisation’.
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date modified: 2020-06-15T08:19:06Z
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