Our Courses

There are a lot of A-Level Economics tutors. We, like them, can help you with elasticity and externatlies. We can and we will revise shifting Demand curves and vertical Supply curves; marginal cost curves and maximising profit...

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However, none of that is what a Dragon's Den millionaire would call our USP.

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To us, Economics is truly relevant, compelling and alive when we discuss how it changes lives; when we study economic ideas because they shaped history and still shape our lives today. Learn these stories now, and you will use them to critically analyse news, political opinions and government policy for the rest of your life.

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If you want to truly understand Micro, we can help you draft a business plan: what are your production costs, what is your profit margin, what is your shut down price? 

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What is more, if you want to truly understand Macro, you don't just need to be able to draw demand and supply curves for an exam. You need historical context. You should to be able to sit at a dinner table years from now and still be able to tell the story of the birth of Macro:

 

Picture the Roaring 20s, the Wall Street Crash in 1929, the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover scratching his head over 25% unemployment while Neo-Classical economists sit in his office telling him to just leave it be, "laissez faire", let the market adjust.

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You can learn in a dry textbook about Fiscal Policy, unemployment and the pros and cons of Deficit spending... But what you really need is to picture President Hoover's comfortable Oval office, and then smash cut to the lived experience of millions of homeless Americans on dusty roads as captured by John Steinbeck in Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath. Then you understand why people voted for change, and why a new President needed new, radical economic policy. 

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You can learn by repetition to draw the strange shape of a Keynesian LRAS curve... but you should also watch President Roosevelt's inauguration speech promising the New Deal and to change America in the First 100 Days. "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself." That's about a new Economics. 

 

You need to imagine John Maynard Keynes upending a hundred years of orthodoxy and imploring Roosevelt to borrow and spend at unimaginable levels because "in the Long Run, we will all be dead" so we can't just leave the market alone to adjust in its own time. Only Government spending, Keynes said, could end the Great Depression, so while productive investment is better, it is even worth "paying a man to dig a hole and fill it back up."

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Knowing the story of the Great Depression and how it links to the Second World War is when an LRAS curve stops being just a line on a graph and truly means something to you. 

 

Understanding the story of the hyper-inflation in the inter-war years in Germany by discussing a photo of kids flying a kite made of worthless bank notes is how you truly understand an economist's deathly fear of inflation (and indeed, the rise of Hitler).

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In the same way, knowing what Thatcher and Reagan believed and understanding the battle with the Unions over jobs and wages is how to more deeply understand Stagflation and Monetary Policy. 

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If you truly know and understand these stories, it changes forever how you analyse every Chancellor's budget for the rest of your life, and then you have an opinion of your own. 

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Knowing these stories will also, incidentally, make you much better at exams. 

It's just more fun this way.