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Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...et al., 2019) Figure 2: Declines in labour share across advanced economies have been widespread but not uniform Activity 2: The distribution of income between workers and firms Timing: 3 minutes What does the figure tell you about the proportion of national income held by workers? What can we extrapolate about the share held by entrepreneurs and shareholders? Discussion...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...article in The Runnymede Bulletin. There are four pieces of quantitative evidence in the article: the first is a simple line graph showing the increase in the number of deaths in police custody investigated by the Police Complaints Authority since 1995–96 (see Figure 4). [Figure 4] Figure 4 Increase in the number of deaths in police custody investigated by the Police...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Dance skills
Education & Development

Dance skills

...article ‘Dance Science’ by Rachel Rist (1991). Identify the points that you are familiar with and the developments that you were unaware of. Reflect on whether any of this information will impact upon your practice and, if so, in what way(s). view document...Dance skills: 3 Dance combinations - Movement and dance combinations enable students to make physical sense of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Beginners’ German: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ German: food and drink

...article using just the picture. Language: Using der, die, das and ein, eine In the first activity you came across some of the German articles der, die, das (the). Here is how they work: These articles identify the grammatical gender of a noun. All German nouns have a grammatical gender. They are either masculine, feminine or neuter. Sometimes the gender is predictable,...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...et al., 2004). One of the leading exponents of this emerging field of behavioural finance, Werner de Bondt, suggests that: For at least forty years psychologists have amassed evidence that economic man is very unlike a real man and that reason – for now, defined by the principles that underlie expected utility theory, Bayesian learning and rational expectations – is...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Is your social media use impacting your future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is your social media use impacting your future?

...et al. (2019) discussed this concept with some members of the public and there is evidence to suggest it can have both a positive and negative effect on the perceptions of an individual or organisation. For example, certain ‘star’ systems and ‘reviews’ can tell us how a service is performing from the user perspective or, alternatively, it can give us professional...
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Activity 5 mins
Organisations and the financial system
Money & Business

Organisations and the financial system

...article is about how money gets created. We're surrounded here by gold in the vaults of the Bank of England. And historically in the gold standard, the amount of gold would have been related to the stock of money in the economy. Things are very different now. In the modern economy, where does money come from? RYLAND THOMAS: Well, let's start off with narrow or central...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The business of football
Money & Business

The business of football

...article by Professor Stefan Szymanski of the University of Michigan, author, with Simon Kuper, of the book Soccernomics (2009). Open the article in a separate window or tab. He explores in more detail some of the ideas raised in the video and your discussion. As you read the article, look out for any ideas which were not raised in the previous activity. [A photograph of...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs