The government has been gathering data about household outgoings for six decades. It tracks social and structural changes over those times, says the ONS' Joanna Bulman.
Category: Personal Finance
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Science and innovation: out of the frying pan and into the fire? Richard Brooks discusses the spending review and science funding.
Category: Science, Maths & Technology
What tricks of the trade do shops employ to make us dig deep into our pockets and spend our hard-earned cash?
Category: Sociology
Why do economies go into recession, and what should policymakers do? How do governments use money to influence the economy?
Over the past century governments have used a variety of strategies to avoid economic instability, and the current economic crisis has been handled very differently from the Great Depression, the last comparable global downturn. Getting the balance right - between government spending and taxation, low inflation and low unemployment, low interest rates for borrowers and rewards for savers - is difficult in practice, and the subject of ongoing debate in economic theory.
Over the past century governments have used a variety of strategies to avoid economic instability, and the current economic crisis has been handled very differently from the Great Depression, the last comparable global downturn. Getting the balance right - between government spending and taxation, low inflation and low unemployment, low interest rates for borrowers and rewards for savers - is difficult in practice, and the subject of ongoing debate in economic theory.
Category: Economics
Is it better to save or to spend? According to Keynes, if you don't spend, you're going to make the economy even worse. This animations explains more in just one-minute.
Category: Economics
Alan Shipman, the Open University's lecturer in economics, responds to the October 2010 Spending Review
Category: Economics
Our increasingly virtualised world has seen music switch from physical formats to digital downloads. Should money also go digital - and if it does, would it necessarily be for the best?
Category: Economics
A grassroots movement taking action to highlight alternatives to the government's spending cuts.