INTRODUCTION

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2.The Chinese slowdown- Martin Wolf

3.Scoop-it on China

4. Scoop-it – Global economy

5.How will a chinese slowdown hit global growth

6.The Chinese economy – video

7. Eurozone growth hit high

SECTION 1:THE BALANCE OF PAYMENTS

1.How worrying is the UK’s current account deficit ?

2.Hartz reforms

3.The Hartz reforms and the German economic miracle

4.zero hour contracts

SECTION 2: INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS

1.Number of workers on zero-hour contracts rises above 800,000

2. UK productivity gap- BBC

3. How do we tackle productivity- video

4.deloitte-monday-briefing-on-productivity

SECTION 3:EXCHANGE RATES ANDTHE EU/EMU

1. A history of sterling -Telegraph

2. More on the Brexit debate

3.After Brexit

4.J. Stiglitz- seven reforms to save the euro

5. The economy after Brexit- video

6.The new Geo- Economics-J. Stiglitz

7. What you need to know about Brexit – BBC

8.The two sides of Brexit – BBC

9. Costs and benefits of a depreciating pound

10.Let the pound fall and the economy rise- Guardian

11.Effects of Brexit

13.Facts about the UK economy

 

SECTION 4: POLICIES

1.Money and capital markets

2.Commercial banks and capital requirements-video

3.The attractions and perils of negative interest rates

4. Financial economics-creating credit

5.Financial economics-financial market failure

6. Central banks printing money

7. Financial economics- Central Banks

8. The price of oil-video by FT

9.The effects of lower prices of oil

10. Bank of England to buy Apple bonds

11. Headwinds of economic growth-Dambisa Moyo

12.Financial crises- Economist

FISCAL POLICY

12.Are austerity measures self-defeating

13.Stiglitz on austerity

14. Austerity delusion; Paul Krugman

15. Stiglitz; a lost decade

16. Can Keynesian Economics Reduce Boom-bust cycles?

17. keynesian economics

18.The relevance of Keynesian economics