Stone Lecture – From University of Cambridge

What advice would you give a student thinking of applying to study Economics? – University of Cambridge

(Film) Arbitrage

(Film) The Informant

(Film) Too Big To Fail

(Film) Moneyball – Appletv

(Film) The Big Short

(Film) Margin Call

(Film) Inside Job

(Film) The Wolf of Wall Street

General Reading

• The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
• Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
• Super Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
• Free Lunch: Easily Digestible Economics by David Smith
• Age of Instability by David Smith
• The Economic Naturalist Robert H Frank
• The Ascent of Money: by Niall Ferguson
• New Ideas from Dead Economists by Todd G. Buchholz
• Why Globalization Works by Martin Wolf
• The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier
• Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth
• Daylight Robbery: How Tax Shaped Our Past and Will Change Our Future – Dominic Frisby
• Bitcoin: the Future of Money?– Dominic Frisby
• Life After the State – Dominic Frisby

Academic Text

• Paper 1:  Microeconomics

Dasgupta, P (2007), Economics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press. – Rodrik, D (2015), Economics Rules: Why Economics Works, When It Fails, and How To Tell The Difference, Oxford University Press.

Varian, H (2014), Intermediate Microeconomics, Norton.

• Paper 2: Macroeconomics

Jones, C (2020), Macroeconomics, International edition.

Mankiw, N G and M P Taylor (2014), Macroeconomics, European Edition.

• Paper 3: Synoptic Paper

Quantitative Methods in Economics – Lind, D, W Marchal and R Mason, Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics, McGraw-Hill.

Sydsaeter, K and P Hammond, Essential Mathematics for Economic Analysis, Prentice Hall.

Pemberton, M and N Rau, Mathematics for Economists, Manchester University Press [more advanced for those studying A-level Further Maths].

Mann, P S, Introductory Statistics, Wiley [more advanced for those studying A-level Further Maths].

Podcasts

• Freakonomics – The hidden side of everything
• 50 things that made the modern economy
• The story of economics – Monsters
• This is capitalism
• The Big Green Money Show
• The Shadowpunk Revolution

• Economic Affairs
• Wealth Generation – How to boost income immobility in the UK
• New Paternalism meets older wisdom

• Marshall Society – Economic Essay Writing Competition
• Royal Economics Society – Young Economist of the Year Competition
• Wharton Group Global High School Investor Challenge Competition

• The Economist -World News, Politics, Economics, Business, and Finance
• Plus Magazine – Bringing mathematics to life
• National Institute of Economic and Social Research
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Institute of economic affairs (IEA)
• Institute of economic affairs (Blog)
• IMF Blog
• Greg Mankiw Blog

• London School of Economics
• London Stock Exchange
• Bank of England