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...economics...Transcript Economics and the environment have a reputation for not getting along! For many, economics is viewed as capitalism and profits, whilst the environment is something good, necessary, and underappreciated. But perhaps there are benefits to considering these two areas together, or even as one? When I talk to students and other academics I often observe...

...Economics which is used to understand and tackle some of the biggest challenges we face globally: tensions between growth and inequalities, market power and innovation, whether economics has what it takes to solve environmental challenges...This course sets out to show you how economics is often a discipline with a multitude of perspectives and traditions that go beyond...

...Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view, looks at how Keynes's theories revolutionised thinking about the causes of crises and unemployment. Keynes's thinking on how to reduce these problems was very influential with economists and policy makers for several decades following the 1930s. The economic downturn that started in 2008 led to a widespread revival of...

...Economic Community in 1973, under a Conservative government, it agreed to VAT on sanitary products being 17.5%. Following political pressure on the Treasury in the form of Early Day Motions from Labour MP Chris McCafferty and taken up by fellow Labour MP Dawn Primarolo in 2000, it was eventually reduced to 5%. When the VAT Directive was last negotiated in Brussels in...

...Economics explains discrimination in the labour market, will help you look at this problem from a new perspective: through economics. You will learn how economists have tried to understand what drives this distortion of the labour market and why women and those from minority ethnic groups seem to suffer the most...Discrimination in the labour market exists in many forms:...