Webinar Business and Sustainability

Last month during our Positive Economics series, we focused on “Understanding Fiscal Policy” from a governmental point of view. Click here for the recording and other resources. During tonight’s Positive Economics webinar, we discussed how business interacts with sustainability through asking the following questions: How do businesses interact with sustainability? Let’s start with a specific Read more about Webinar Business and Sustainability[…]

Webinar on Understanding Fiscal Policy

During this session, we discussed how the government taxes and spends as well as some useful research relating to this year’s Leaving Cert Economics project. For the first time ever, Irish economics students in secondary school are being tasked with taking on the role of a practising economist and this will represent 20% of their Read more about Webinar on Understanding Fiscal Policy[…]

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Webinar Spotlight on COVID-19 and Gender Pay Gap

One of the key reasons that we decided to run the Positive Economics webinar series (with exports, housing and Brexit so far) is that it’s such a dynamic subject, it can be difficult for students and teachers to keep up with all that’s changing in the world. Therefore, as a practising economist, I can help them out. If there was ever Read more about Webinar Spotlight on COVID-19 and Gender Pay Gap[…]

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Positive Economics Webinar: Spotlight on Housing

In 2020, the government expects to spend €2.56 billion on housing and this is more than double the amount spent during the year of our IMF bailout when €1.08 billion was spent in the same area. It’s super easy to find these figures using the “Where your Money Goes” web site. One can navigate it easily Read more about Positive Economics Webinar: Spotlight on Housing[…]

How much does it cost to change money from euro to another currency?

Listen to this post as a podcast. If you go on holiday to Spain or Portugal, you can use euros to buy goods and services. However, when you go to the UK or China, then you will need the currency that they use in their respective country. In order to get notes or coins, you Read more about How much does it cost to change money from euro to another currency?[…]

Our FaceBook Live Event – A Brexit update, super productive economic resources and time management in exams

The full video is available right here from our Positive Economics co-author, Susan Hayes Facebook Live Q&A event. You can click this link to register for the next one focusing on housing. We got good engagement and feedback from teachers who joined our Facebook Live event. Some comments below. Below is a range of resources Read more about Our FaceBook Live Event – A Brexit update, super productive economic resources and time management in exams[…]