Economics NAS

Two meals for $1: Why China’s youth are not spending

Often in economics, we’re taught how vital consumer spending is for sustaining growth. But in the real world, most government […]

When we study unemployment in class, it’s easy to think of it as a straightforward result of a weak economy

The article explains how the latest US government shutdown began after Congress failed to agree on a new federal budget.

It’s nice to see that some of the things we read and study in A-Level Economics are actually being implemented

When we study government intervention and market failure, we usually think of taxes or subsidies, but this article offers another

What really caught my attention about this article is how China’s government is intervening to stop falling prices, not rising

As students of economics, we often study the idea of negative externalities in theory — pollution, congestion, overuse of scarce

As students, we often focus more on demand-side factors when analysing inflation, but this article is a great reminder of

As economics students, we’re often taught about the dangers of cost-push inflation and how it can trigger something known as

Reading this article made me realise how some problems in economics can’t be solved purely through the market mechanism. The