Could 'How to Win a Trade War?' be a Class Read?
I’m delighted that Soumaya Keynes has agreed to join us for EconEdChat on 14 September, so if you want to ask her about any of this yourself, come along! Before I say anything else: if you teach Year 13 Macro, read this book. That bit isn’t up for debate and I’ll come back to why further down. Everything else in this post is me thinking out loud about whether it could do a bigger job than CPD, namely whether it could work as a class read, and where else it might earn its pla
Joan Robinson podcast
This is from Economics in Ten podcast, season two, episode five. Joan Robinson was one of the most brilliant economists of the 20th century, a member of Keynes’s inner circle, and responsible for the theory of monopolistic competition that now features on the A-level spec. Yet she remains far less famous than her male contemporaries, which the episode addresses directly. There’s also coverage of her post-Keynesian economics and her fierce intellectual independence. She’s a go
John Forbes Nash Jr. podcast
This is from Economics in Ten podcast, season two, episode four. Nash’s life is often reduced to A Beautiful Mind (great film), but this episode tells the full picture. It gets into the actual economics: game theory, Nash equilibrium, and what happens when rational individuals interact strategically. The Nash equilibrium concept is directly applicable to A-level oligopoly content: it is a natural way to model price-fixing, arms races, and strategic interdependence between fir