Business
What is the study:
- UK Perspective Business and Management @ The Complete UniGuide
- UK Perspective Accounting and Finance @ The Complete UniGuide
- UK Student Room Uni Guide Business and more business adjacent areas.
- US perspective @ Career Explorer
Super Curriculars
How can you go deeper in high school?
Listen to podcasts
- Freakonomics | The hidden side of everything
- BBC — 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy
- Oxford listening and reading list for economics
- EconTalk: Weekly conversations with leading economists and other thinkers, ranging beyond economic theory and into practical policies and ideas too.
- More or Less: Behind the Stats:This podcast precisely dismantles statistical claims made in the news and does it with good humour. Presented by the FT’s ‘Undercover Economist’, Tim Harford.
- 50 Things that Made the Modern Economy:There are now more than 100 episodes in the archive. Analysing the influence of everyday items from canned food to QWERTY keyboards.
- Freakonomics Radio:Following the famous book’s theme of finding the hidden economics of everyday life.
- Macro Musings:Steps back to consider large-scale economic issues such as inflation, monetary policy and labour markets via interviews with prominent economists of today.
- Planet Money:Direct economic thinking via big topical stories
- Gresham College lectures on Economics: Accessible public talks from expert academics, available in both audio and video formats.
- London School of Economics public lectures:These are available to watch or listen to, presenting a range of challenging viewpoints
Read:
- The Economist – World News, Politics, Economics, Business &Finance
- plus magazine: Living Maths
- The Undercover Economistby Tim Harford: Everyday economics and real world applications.
- Thinking Fast and Slowby Daniel Kahnemann (2011): Explains the differences between intuitive and deliberative thinking with their consequences for human behaviour.
Watch
Documentaries
The Ascent of Money
Masters of Money
And view other parts 2 and 3: https://www.youtube.com/@documentaries7914
97% Owned: The Money System
Bitcoin: The End of Money As We Know It?
Ted Talks:
Youtube Channel
- Economics Explained: Hour-long primers on global economics topics.
- Crash Course Economics: Fun and fast-paced overviews of economics topics and key thinkers. Entertaining visuals to help you keep track of the ideas.
- Jacob Clifford: Enthusiastic explanations of micro- and macroeconomics.
- How Money Works: Explaining personal finance and the systems behind it.
- Khan Academy: Economics and Finance: Clear teaching of foundational concepts.
Join Clubs
Enter Competitions
- Marshall Society Essay Competition
- International Economics Competition –South East Asian Competition
- LSESU Economics Society Essay Competition
Take courses
- Principles of Economics (MIT on edX) [Archived but still freely accessible.]
- Microeconomics: The Power of Markets (University of Pennsylvania on Coursera)
- Macroeconomics: The Big Picture (Rice University on Coursera)
- Financial Markets (Yale University on Coursera)
- Economics of Money and Banking (Columbia University on Coursera)
- The Challenges of Global Poverty (MIT online)
And the Career?
- Check out Career explorer
- And a day in the life
Test Fit the Career
In your favorite AI, enter the following prompt:
Prompt 1:
- Based on my VIA Signature Strengths of [insert your VIA Character Signature Strengths] evaluate how well a career as a [insert career role] aligns with these strengths. In your response, consider how this role might allow me to express or grow these strengths through its typical tasks, work environment, and purpose. Also, note any potential mismatches or challenges I should be aware of.
- Follow up 1:
- Suggest one way I could explore or “test-fit” this role (e.g., through a school activity, internship, or project) to see if it genuinely nurtures my strengths.
Prompt 2:
- You are an expert and funny career counselor. I am interested in [ENTER YOUR CHOICE] and I am in high school. Ask me a series of five questions, one at a time, that will help you (and me) determine if this is good career choice for me.
- Follow-up 1:
- Please provide five Books to read about this career.
- Suggest some Clubs to join to help me explore this career or develop skills useful to this career.
- Follow-up 2:
- Give me 10 reasons why NOT to pursue investment baking.
- Follow-up 3:
- How much will AI impact the roll of [ENTER YOUR CAREER]?
- Follow-up 1: