The document outlines ways to challenge and enrich ambitious economics students. It recommends encouraging students to think counter-intuitively, write in more depth, and explore the work of interesting economists. Suggested activities include student reading groups, an online magazine, investor challenges, economics societies, entrepreneurship competitions, external essay competitions, and external enrichment lectures and summer schools. The goal is for students to be ambitious, questioning, develop context awareness, and build a portfolio of economics and finance experiences.

1. Challenge and Enrichment for Ambitious
Economics Students (and their Teachers)
Geoff Riley FRSA, Eton
College and Tutor2u
11th June 2019

4. Challenge and
enrichment –
core aims
• To encourage students to think counter-
intuitively
• To promote writing in more depth and detail
• To work in a collegiate spirit
• To explore the work of really interesting
academic economists
• To build their own portfolio of experiences
in economics, finance and entrepreneurship
• To be ambitious, questioning and full of
intellectual curiosity
• To develop a sense of place, context and
historical awareness

6. Esther Duflo Al Roth
Marianna Mazzucato
Ricardo Hausmann
Alan KruegerHal Varian

7. Rob Shiller

8. Gerd Gigerenzer Thomas Piketty Christine Lagarde
Joan Robinson Kate Raworth Rob ShillerBob Shiller

10. Keynes
Richard Thaler
Amartya Sen Linda Yueh
Elinor Ostrom George Akerlof

11. Challenge and
Enrichment for
Ambitious
Economics
Students
Student reading groups (Junior and Senior) – article focus
Student online magazine & print edition
Student Investor Challenge Competition
Economics Society, Politics Society, Entrepreneurship Society
F Factor Entrepreneurship Competition (Founder’s Forum)
External essay competition (RES/FT, Oxbridge colleges)
Internal essay and video competitions (behavioural economics)
Social Impact Competition
Student-run investment club (joint venture with local school)
External enrichment lectures (LSE, UCL, RSA, Oxford Martin)
University Summer Schools
Online courses and hands-on student workshops
Economics at the Movies! Economics Podcasts

12. Economics and
Politics
Reading Club
Your
recommended
Books?

13. Etonomics

14. Headington School,
Oxford

15. Lunchtime Debating Society –
Dubai College

16. Exploration
week at St
Peter’s
School,
York

17. Student-run Entrepreneurship Society

19. Trading workshop after school – very popular!

21. Finance Workshop

22. Discover Risk Workshop

23. Speed networking for End of Year 11

24. Student run Social Impact Group

25. Oxford Martin School

29. Emmanuel College, Gateshead

38. Settling into
A Levels
Learning how to
write an essay
Reading
beyond the
Spec!
Start of
serious
UCAS prep
Leaving the
syllabus
behind!

39. Challenge and Enrichment for Ambitious
Economics Students (and their Teachers)
Geoff Riley FRSA, Eton
College and Tutor2u
June 2019