These are a collection of essays written for my economic blogs.
Exchange Rate Essays
- Effects of a falling Dollar
- Why Dollar keeps falling
- Discuss Policies to Stop the Dollar Falling
- Does Devaluation Cause Inflation?
- Benefits and Costs of Falling Dollar
- Reasons for Falling Dollar
- The Dollar as the World’s Reserve Currency
Economic Growth Essays
- Evaluate Benefits of Economic Growth
- Essays on Recessions
- Causes of Recessions
- Problems of Recovering from a Recession
- What can Increase Long-Run Economic Growth?
- Discuss Effect of a fall in the Savings Ratio
Inflation Essays
- Discuss the Difficulties of Controlling Inflation
- Should the aim of the Government be to Attain Low Inflation?
- Explain What Can Cause a Sustained Increase in the Rate of Inflation
- Reasons for low inflation in the UK
- Inflation Explained
- Difficulties of Inflation targeting
- Hyperinflation
Unemployment Essays
- Explain what is meant by Natural Rate of Unemployment?
- Should the Main Macro Economic Aim of the Government be Full Employment?
- The True Level of Unemployment in the UK
- What explains low inflation and low unemployment in the UK?
Demand Side Policies
- Discuss effect of Expansionary demand-side policies on Balance of Payments and Environment
- Effects of a Falling Stock Market
- How do Mortgage Defaults affect and Economy?
- Discuss the effect of increased Government spending on education
- Phillips Curve – Trade-off between Inflation and Unemployment
Development Economics
- Why Growth may not benefit developing countries
- Does Aid Increase Economic Welfare?
- Problems of Free Trade for Developing Economies
Fiscal Policy
Trade
- Explain Reasons for UK Current Account Deficit
- Benefits of Globalisation for Developing and Developed Countries
Monetary Policy
- Discuss Effects of an Increase in Interest Rates
- How MPC set Interest Rates
- Benefits of High-Interest Rates (and recessions)
- Who Sets interest rates – Markets or Bank of England?
Economic History
- Economics of the 1920s
- What Caused Wall Street Crash of 1929?
- UK economy under Mrs Thatcher
- Economy of the 1970s
- Lawson Boom of the 1980s
- UK recession of 1991
- The great recession 2008-13
General Economic Essays
- The Dismal Science
- Difference Between Economists and Non Economists
- War and Recessions
- The Economics of Fear
- The Economics of Happiness
- Can UK and US avoid Recession?
- 3 Of the Worst Economic Policies
- Overvalued Housing Markets
US Economy
UK Economy
Recessions
Chinese Economy
- Problems of Chinese Economic Growth
- Should we worry about a strong China
- Chinese Growth and Costs of Growth
- Chinese Interest Rates and Economic Growth
Model essays
Humorous
- Top 10 Reasons For Studying Economics
- Inflation explained by Victor Borge
- Funny Exam Answers
- Humorous look at Subprime crisis