Read this before you teach...Introduction to Economics (Updated version!)
I always think there is a lot riding on the first few weeks: getting to know them, helping them transition from GCSE, setting routines and expectations, identifying students who might be on the wrong course, all whilst simultaneously trying to inspire a love of economics and also get on with the course because there's a crazy amount to teach... it's a tall order. I've pulled together the best A-Level Economics resources I can find for those first few weeks of term. I've also
Milton Friedman podcast
This is from Economics in Ten podcast, season three, episode one. Friedman is one of the most influential economists of the 20th century and this is one of the more substantive episodes of the series. It covers monetarism, the natural rate of unemployment, the permanent income hypothesis, and Friedman’s case against Keynesian demand management. His ideas are directly spec-relevant and important for evaluation: the monetarist critique of fiscal policy is a key counter-argument
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