E.F. Schumacher podcast
This is from Economics in Ten podcast, season five, episode two. Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful (subtitled ‘Economics as if People Mattered’) was a landmark critique of the assumption that growth and scale are always desirable. His concept of intermediate technology: practical, locally appropriate tools rather than the most advanced Western technology: was influential in development economics. The episode positions him as a forerunner of ecological economics and the wellbein
Simon Kuznets podcast
This is from Economics in Ten podcast, season five, episode one. Kuznets has at least two curves named after him, which is a reasonable indicator of influence. The most famous is the Kuznets curve, which predicts an inverted U-shape relationship between income per head and inequality: as countries develop, inequality first rises and then falls. The episode also covers the environmental Kuznets curve (a similar pattern proposed for environmental degradation) and Kuznets’s foun
Word of the Week: Tier 2 vocabulary calendar/poster set
*Tier 2 vocabulary is a tricky one for students, and it's something we've talked about a lot (eg here). Tier 2 words are the academic vocabulary that turns up far more in writing than in speech. They aren't subject-specific terms like elasticity or externality, and they aren't the everyday words students pick up in conversation. Students who aren't reading a great deal, therefore, are less likely to have come across them, and that can be a barrier when they are reading, creat