
The LSE Big Questions lecture Speaker: Professor Danny Quah Recorded on 30 June 2011 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building. Your clothes, trainers, Xboxes, TVs and much, much more are all made in the East. And by selling us all this stuff, countries such as China and India are becoming wealthier and more powerful than ever before. But if the East is becoming stronger -- is the West becoming weaker? Should we be scared by this? What does it mean for you anyway? In a highly interactive lecture for schools, Professor Danny Quah will explore how the world is changing, with countries such as China and India becoming wealthier and more powerful than ever before. Using simple ideas from economics, he will explain why this is happening and what it means for our future. The lecture is most suitable for students in Year 9, and more motivated students in Years 7 and 8 and has been designed with elements of the KS3 citizenship curriculum in mind. It will give students an understanding of: * How the East's economic power is growing and what this means for Western countries such as the UK, and potentially for the students themselves * The importance of viewing the changes in local, national and global contexts, whilst also taking into account moral, historical and social dimensions of the changes * What an economy is and how trade works * The benefits of economic development for a country * How economics provides a useful way to interpret the world Danny Quah is Professor of <b>...</b>
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