What is ECONOMICS? Below you can find links to the videos made by the Department of Economics at Maynooth University to support secondary school students.

    The seven videos below are titled:

    The Case of Irish Agriculture 
    This video is about economic, social and environmental sustainability in the context of Irish agriculture.

     

    Income Inequality for Secondary School Students
    This is a new topic on economics subject leaving-certificate curriculum. 

    What is ECONOMICS?
    Dr. Leahy explains how economics is the science of choice.


    Why Study Economics?


    Minimum wages for secondary school students - Irish sign language interpretation included

    This 30 min video for leaving cert students is intended to be watched at school during class time. The first part of the video covers minimum wages as presented in the leaving cert curriculum. The second part has interviews on minimum wages with academics and policy influencers. The third part discusses the question ‘what is economics?’.


    A video for Transition-Year students - Fast Fashion and Economics 

    This short (± 8 minute) video gives TY students a flavour of how economists look at issues from daily life, using “fast fashion” as an example.  The final-year research project of one of our students provided the inspiration for the video.