{"id":4599,"date":"2022-10-28T12:03:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T11:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/?p=4599"},"modified":"2022-10-28T12:45:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T11:45:07","slug":"october-news-roundup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2022\/10\/28\/october-news-roundup-2\/","title":{"rendered":"October News RoundUp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Who ever said Economics wasn&#8217;t political?! Times are turbulent in this month&#8217;s round up, from mini-budgets to proposed tax-cuts, we can&#8217;t keep up! We also welcomed back our placement students and delved into racial prejudice in labour markets. All in this month&#8217;s RoundUp.<\/p>\n<h2>Employability Boosting!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>We were delighted to welcome back our 23 economics Year in Industry students this month, returning for their final year of studies with us. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/4550\/returning-with-enthusiasm-and-motivation-welcome-back-to-our-placement-students\"><strong>Read about their journeys<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Blowing the Budget and Breaking the Bank<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/people\/451\/le%C3%B3n-ledesma-miguel\">Miguel Leon Ledesma<\/a> on why the Conservative mini-budget is so toxic: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/4539\/blowing-the-budget-why-the-conservative-mini-budget-is-so-toxic\"><strong>read here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li id=\"page-title\" class=\"article__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/people\/440\/duncan-alfred\">Dr Alfred Duncan<\/a> on why removing interest on reserves would \u2018tie one hand behind the back of the Bank of England\u2019: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/4546\/breaking-the-bank-why-removing-interest-on-reserves-would-tie-one-hand-behind-the-back-of-the-bank-of-england\"><strong>read here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li class=\"article__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/people\/2990\/dueber-jan-philipp\">Dr Jan-Philipp Dueber<\/a> on the price of purchasing Nutella in Egyptian supermarkets: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/4564\/thinking-about-economics-in-everyday-situations-introducing-jan-philipp-dueber\"><strong>read here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Black History Month<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"page-title\" class=\"article__title\">Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/people\/432\/amirapu-amrit\">Dr Amrit Amirapu<\/a> discusses a paper that reveals racial prejudices in the American labour market, at the very start of the recruitment process. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/4578\/are-emily-and-greg-more-employable-than-lakisha-and-jamal-do-employers-discriminate-on-the-basis-of-race\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"page-title\" class=\"article__title\">Professor Miltos Makris, 1970- 2022<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Our friend and former colleague Miltos Makris passed away Friday, October 14th. He died peacefully surrounded by his loved ones. Read our Head of School&#8217;s tribute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/4570\/professor-miltos-makris-1970-2022\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who ever said Economics wasn&#8217;t political?! Times are turbulent in this month&#8217;s round up, from mini-budgets to proposed tax-cuts, we can&#8217;t keep up! We also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2022\/10\/28\/october-news-roundup-2\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78674,"featured_media":4600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4599"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4606,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions\/4606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}