Monday 14 January 2013

13GP: Short and sweet intro to the Tragedy of the Commons

13GP: Interesting attempt to explain recent global financial crisis as a 'tragedy of the commons'

13GP: Channel 4 News on Durban Climate change talks

12GP: 5 days that changed Britain, part 1/4. Invaluable for our current unit.

12GP: The Guardian analyse Cameron's 2012 cabinet reshuffle

13Ec: Brilliant BBC debate on UK relationship with EU. Key point: could UK enjoy free trade with EU without being part of EU?

13Ec: Decent explanation of the relationship between current account balance and exchange rates (using eg of USA/China)

13Ec: PAJ Holden on whether a current account deficit is a problem

13Ec: Milton Friedman on protectionism (in short, he's not a big fan)

13Ec: PAJ Holden on Tariffs and Protectionism. I can't get enough of this guy...

And here he is on quotas and protectionism

13GP: Al Jazeera ask "What is the IMF?"

13GP: DFID video celebrating success in reaching (some) MDGs

13GP: Mute your PC and enjoy this intro to conservatism

12GP: Great video on Lords Reform

12GP: This videos contains as much information about whips as you could hope to fit into 60 seconds.