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The Economics dept @DubaiCollege
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Joined June 2014
Podcast: What did ‘Nudge’ get wrong? With Nick Chater
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Small interventions only have a small effect
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Traditional call centers are cooked!! PolyAI launched a global brand campaign featuring Gordon Ramsay calling out broken, menu-driven customer service systems. The work positions its voice agents as a replacement for legacy phone menus by demonstrating end-to-end task
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The 12 richest billionaires own more than the four billion poorest, and this "inequality is soaring" due to capitalism - explains economist Clara Mattei on Ways to Change the World.
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The UK does not have a welfare problem. It's got a corrupt politician and corrupt political elite problem. It's got a billionaire problem. Tax the rich.
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Plenty of doubters have scoffed at Elon Musk’s grand ambitions before. But never has he put so much on the line
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The fates of xAI, SpaceX and Tesla are increasingly intertwined
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Meet our competition winners for week two of Topical Talk Festival! 🎉 ⛷️This week, we asked students whether new technology affects behaviour and sportsmanship in sport, and if this is fair. Congratulations to these winners for their insightful contributions. Stay tuned as we
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Latest U.S. Tariff Rates by Country 1. 🇨🇳 China – 47.5% 2. 🇨🇭 Switzerland – 39% 3. 🇨🇦 Canada – 35% 4. 🇻🇳 Vietnam – 20% 5. 🇹🇼 Taiwan – 20% 6. 🇿🇦 South Africa – 20% 7. 🇧🇩 Bangladesh – 20% 8. 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka – 20% 9. 🇵🇭 Philippines – 19% 10. 🇮🇩 Indonesia – 19% 11. 🇵🇰 Pakistan – 19%
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With globalisation are all markets contestable?
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Comac's passenger jet is attracting customers in South East Asia where demand for affordable aircraft is growing.
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Spain plans to ban access to social media for children under the age of 16, joining France and Australia in attempting to curb the potentially harmful impact of online content on young people. https://t.co/6ECTZTdWxG
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A2 Economics – deriving the demand curve from indifference curves. https://t.co/tTmYea3dQK
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Some textbooks for the CAIE A2 Economics course don’t cover indifference curve analysis in detail and tend to just focus more on the income and substitution effect. For essays at A2 level it is imp…
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Don’t fear the AI ‘jobpocalypse’
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The technology hasn’t yet hit employment notably, and could create more openings
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Peter Thiel gave a 1-hour masterclass on how to build a monopoly from scratch.
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Young professionals are bitterly angry about the student loans system, protesting that agreements they were encouraged to sign up to as 18-year-old school pupils are blighting their financial futures. Do they have a point?
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Graduates are in uproar about Budget changes to loan repayment terms, and they have a point
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We’re proud to present the amazing research of our Young Economist of the Year competition finalists! Amber Sarwar of Aquinas College explored the economic effects of tariffs. Read her piece here 👉 https://t.co/t4JeGUMcks , then give her a like and share her ideas!
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microsurgery robot stitches up a corn kernel Showing millimeter-level precision
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Poverty is deepening. 🔎 Our #UKPoverty2026 report was launched this morning. People in very deep poverty now make up the biggest group of people in poverty, at 6.8 million people. This is unacceptable for the fifth richest country in the world, and it has consequences.
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Now that the AI5 chip design is in good shape, Tesla will restart work on Dojo3. If you’re interested in working on what will be the highest volume chips in the world, send a note to AI_Chips@Tesla.com with 3 bullet points on the toughest technical problems you’ve solved.
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