John Powell | Dept of Strategy & Management | Leicester Business School
What is 'Economics Toolbox'?Economics Toolbox is a set of resources designed to support DMU modules which contain an economics content and/or are taught by me, John Powell, in some capacity. There are up-to-date articles covering a range of economics issues and individual module support pages (just follow the module codes on the menu at the right). It allows me to get my daily html fix and to provide easy access to useful materials for students and other members of staff. As Economics Toolbox has moved to its own server space and domain, I expect to develop the site into some diverse areas. Watch this space... I use Macromedia and Adobe software running on Apple products (our household does average >2 machines per person, and has an ethernet /wifi network which extends to the garden). I admit to being a gadget freak, so I'm rarely seen without Palm Tungsten / iPod / etc (and now a Canon Ixus digicam and a Canon DV cam - it's great spending departmental money!). I'll be first in line for an iPhone in the UK, especially if it can be unlocked to Orange. Most impressive / cool software has to be Salling Clicker (which allows remote control of my PowerBook from my phone or Palm, via Bluetooth). Next most fab software is Parallels Desktop - virtualisation software - which now allows me to run the horrific Access database we use for admissions on my MacBook Pro (and does so quicker than the desktop machine I have), and even hides all the XP gubbins away so i don't have to see all that nasty bitmapping. What is 'Economics in the News'?Keep up-to-date with economic issues, at both an industry or firm level and an economy/global-wide basis.Economics in the News offers a "digital clipping service" of articles that are relevant to specific DMU modules (note module 'logos' next to those articles) or just generally good economics awarenesss. Culled from The Guardian and increasingly The Economist and BusinessWeek (as well some more esoteric places).If you get the imfamous Guardian 'Sorry' page rather than the article, hit back on the browser and click on the link again. Note that 'older' articles are periodically moved to the Economics in the News Archive usually on a monthly basis. The archive has accumulated since 2001, in part necessitating some of the site redesign in 2004. The core sections are Microeconomics, Micro: Firms and Markets, Macroeconomics and General, which covers the stuff that doesn't fit elsewhere. If you're looking for examples and illustrations of firms' competitive behaviour, look in the Firms and Markets archive. If you want to see examples of competition law in practice, principal-agent relationships, privatised utilities etc check out the microeconomics archive. Macroeconomics covers basic macro policy things like interest rates but also globalisation and trade, and analysis of other national economies- for instance the Japanese or German economies. The Economics Toolbox Book ShopA recent addition – Amazon make it incredibly easy to offer access to their databases (and checkout) on sites other than their own. At this point, it deals with tech and innovation stuff only, but no doubt will expand into all sorts of other varieties. |
NecessitiesYou'll find these on every page.
For academic journal articles (the reading material that really demonstrates your commitment to study!), the following are useful:
Google is one of the quickest and simplest search engines for the rest of the web, and Google continue to innovate in terms of service offering.
Do it Yourself Don't just rely on me to find what's new - look for yourselves! I tend to read the paper over breakfast, but you can do it anytime online. |
