IB Economics (and, not only)

I would like to bring to the attention of IB Higher and Standard Level Economics students as well as colleagues an article by Max Roser and ...

  I have been planning to upload a post about an excellent article published by  Chatham House  since early October (and it is the end of No...

  THE MULTIPLIER EFFECT A (Keynesian) idea whereby an increase in government expenditures G will lead to a greater increase in national in...

  Another 'new kid on the block' for IB Economics students (new syllabus) What is the national (public) debt? It refers to what ...

For whatever they're worth I am posting here the notes that I have prepared for my students on the Phillips Curve.   The Phillips Curve ...

  In the July 2022 issue of Foreign Affairs there is an interesting article titled " The End of Magic Money: Inflation And The Future O...

The new IB Economics syllabus expects a lot from students on   Negative externalities of production Common pool resources Government interve...

A most interesting roundtable organized the other day at the Aspen Institute  on whether the US economy is headed towards stagflation.   Exc...

Very often in HL and SL IB Economics exams, candidates are asked questions that relate to living standards and how can we compare across cou...

'Behavioral economics' is the new kid on the block for IB economics students (syllabus section 2.4).  Specifically the new IB Econom...

The two opening paragraphs of the article this post is all about should really catch the attention of all IB Higher level and Standard level...

A very interesting book recently came to my attention while I was visiting the US.  It's title is " Maxims for Thinking Analyticall...

From my experience (not though from last year as all my classes were online) incorporating podcasts in teaching IB economics can be very eff...

 Throughout these past years, students have invariably been asking to devote some time to issues of (financial) investment.  They all want t...