Every year, third-year Economics undergraduates who take the module “Government, Welfare and Policy” design a poster on which they present their research into topical public policies – local, national, and international – from an economic viewpoint, minus the economics jargon. The students are tasked with identifying a current area of public policy debate, using economic … Continue reading Bringing Economic Policy to the Public
Why we should speak about social housing during the election campaign for a Mayor of London?
By Jahanvi Hasmukhal (BSc Economics) and Emiliya Lazarova Adequate food and shelter are two basic necessities for a child's development. Since Marcus Rushford started his campaign for free school meals, the issue of access to food has gained a lot of public attention across the UK. Thanks to this campaign, we now all understand that … Continue reading Why we should speak about social housing during the election campaign for a Mayor of London?
Rolling out the vaccine
By Clare Purser (Bsc Economics & Finance) In this second instalment of our flu vaccine blog, we move to apply economics in relation to increasing care home staff flu vaccination rates. We investigate a few of the many reasons why care home staff may not receive their flu vaccine including misconceptions and the need for … Continue reading Rolling out the vaccine
Negative Selection – Part 2
By David Hugh-Jones This is the second post about my new paper with Abdel Abdellaoui on natural selection in modern humans. The first post described what we saw in our data: There is natural selection on several polygenic scores: that is, these scores correlate with realized fertility (the number of children born to somebody).Correlations with fertility … Continue reading Negative Selection – Part 2
Negative Selection – Part 1
By David Hugh-Jones I and Abdel Abdellaoui have a new paper out. It deals with natural selection in modern populations. I’ve written three articles about this on my website. This reproduces the first of them, describing our main findings. Natural selection happens when certain genetic variants spread through the population. Our paper uses data from … Continue reading Negative Selection – Part 1
We all need a hero: Looking for leaders
By Joel Clovis Following a successful introduction in ECO's Black History Month (BHM) contribution, I was invited to write a blog piece on prominent economists, of any colour, who had inspired and influenced me on my journey into Economics. I chose Arthur Lewis for the BHM discussion. It was Lewis who 1st modelled the economic … Continue reading We all need a hero: Looking for leaders
Negative interest rates in the UK: A thing for the future?
By Clare Purser (BSc Economics & Finance) As we now begin to see the longer-term economic repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic, the more unconventional tools of monetary policy have begun to rise to the surface. One of those is negative interest rates which have become an increasingly important topic since March 2020 when base interest … Continue reading Negative interest rates in the UK: A thing for the future?
Fathers’ flexible working arrangements
By Matt Aldrich In the wake of the pandemic and the lockdowns that have impacted on our lives, those of us lucky enough to still be in work have had to find different means to balance our home life and working commitments. Huge numbers switched to home working – in June, 49% us did so … Continue reading Fathers’ flexible working arrangements
Economics of Conspiracy
By Duncan Watson Coronavirus is made up, designed to disguise the wanton destructiveness of 5G? Our leaders are lizard shapeshifters from Epsilon 5? Never setting foot on the moon, NASA is really a front for Government manipulation. These are just a small snippet of conspiracies shared by my friend Reg. My purpose today is to … Continue reading Economics of Conspiracy