Econosaurus

A nice video on the incentives to innovate. There is also an application to vaccines here, and they have released a worksheet on patents,...

Article from the Guardian which highlights the Tragedy of the Commons in relation to space junk. Thanks to Dubai College for posting this...

Planet Money/Every Little Thing have a great podcast on 'The Rational Madness Of The Used Car Salesman' which covers the history of used...

A cautionary tale about yet another profession with an incentive to create problems that they get paid to fix. It might be good to...

There are loads of economic concepts in this tragic article on how widening access to the 'Lazarus Drug' Naloxone (aka Narcan), a drug...

If you've been looking at Akerlof's lemon's problem, it might be worth taking a look at this 2019 article from the Economist on some...

The interesting phenomena of (seemingly) public goods being provided by the free market, this is an interesting discussion. There's an...

Streetlamps are usually my go-to when explaining what public goods are, but I usually mention flood defense at some point in the lesson,...

A simple sorting activity from MRU. As is, it goes a bit beyond what students need to know for A-Level (club and common goods), but it's...

It sounds wild (no pun intended) but there's actually some research to back this up. A short, light-hearted look at a serious consequence...