Strange and Unusual Taxes
This article from US tax service Efile shares some of the more unusual taxes across (largely US) history, and also has some interesting...
Space Junk and the Tragedy of the Commons
Article from the Guardian which highlights the Tragedy of the Commons in relation to space junk. Thanks to Dubai College for posting this...
Country Rankings
A quick starter asking students to take a guess at the relative rankings of UK, USA, Norway and Japan on different indicators.
Big Tech Competition and Regulation
Another great article from Economics Observatory on promoting competition in Big Tech. It's a bit lengthier than their usual articles so...
Credit and Social Ratings
There's loads to discuss on credit ratings, as both a solution to information failure and a cause of moral hazard. It can also be...
When Salaries Aren't Secret
A podcast that looks at information failure in the labour market, discussing what changes when a company moves to a policy of transparent...
Why are used car ads so terrible?
Planet Money/Every Little Thing have a great podcast on 'The Rational Madness Of The Used Car Salesman' which covers the history of used...
Why did Sicilian Firefighters start fires?
A cautionary tale about yet another profession with an incentive to create problems that they get paid to fix. It might be good to...
Mobile Phone Insurance
A nice task from MRU challenging students to rewrite a poor article on mobile phone insurance
Moral Hazard increasing Opioid Overdoses
There are loads of economic concepts in this tragic article on how widening access to the 'Lazarus Drug' Naloxone (aka Narcan), a drug...