Detailed module information
Module information on this degree can be found below, separated by year of study.
The module information below applies for the current academic year. The academic year runs from August to July; the 'current year' switches over at the end of July.
Students select optional courses subject to rules specified in the Mechanical Engineering Student Handbook, for example at most three Design and Business courses. Please note that numbers are limited on some optional courses and selection criteria will apply.
Managerial Economics Online
Module aims
Module Outline:
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/business-school/programmes/undergraduate-study/bpes-programme/
Reading list
Session 01
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Finding a Detour to Earn a Living in Indonesian Traffic Jams
New York Times
Session 02
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They Clapped: Can Price-Gouging Laws Prohibit Scarcity?
Library of Economics and Liberty
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What are Externalities?
International Monetary Fund
Session 03
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Does Wal-Mart sell inferior goods?
Social Science Research Network - SSRN
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Chapter 2: Thinking like an economist in "Principles of Microeconomics"
8th, South Western College Publishing
Session 04
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Big data: are we making a big mistake?
Financial Times
Session 05
Session 06
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A Primer on Strategic Games
Cornell University
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Barriers to entry
Wikipedia
Session 07
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The Economist: A to Z terms
The Economist
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Measures of Prices, Inflation, Expected Inflation, and Interest Rates
Digital Economist
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Macroeconomics: understanding the global economy
3rd edition, John Wiley Inc
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Measuring the Size of the Economy: Gross Domestic Product
Rice University
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Human Development Report 2018
UNDP
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China will get old well before it gets rich
CNBC
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China’s Achilles’ heel
The Economist
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Chapter 3: Will China grow old before it grows rich?
Goldman Sachs
Session 08
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Labor Force Participation: the U.S and its Peers
Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis
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Labour force participation rate
OECD
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Chapter 1: Of the division of labour in "Wealth of Nations"
Wikisource
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The Tide of Globalisation is Turning
Financial Times
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Pursuing Women's Economic Empowerment
International Monetary Fund
Session 10
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Bitcoin
Wikipedia
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Goldman Sachs Caves: Bitcoin Is Money
Garden of Econ
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Rush on Northern Rock continues
BBC News
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UK banks receive £37bn bail-out
BBC
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Winding and unwinding extraordinary monetary policy - speech by David Miles
Bank of England
Session 99
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Macroeconomics: understanding the global economy
3rd edition, John Wiley Inc
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Economics for business
Fifth edition, McGraw-Hill Education
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Economics
11th Edition, McGraw-Hill