This text covers the requirements for the compulsory Paper One of the Edexcel syllabus, which also forms the AS Level exam. It covers topical issues such as sleaze, the relationship between lobbyists and government, and the Nolan Report on Standards in Public Life.
David Simpson is a graduate in economics of Edinburgh University and a Harvard PhD.
He worked as a research officer at Dublin's Economic Research Institute, a lecturer at University College, London, a senior lecturer at Stirling University, and was a consultant to the World Bank.
He was the founding director of the Fraser of Allander Institute a think tank based at the University of Strathclyde, where he was Professor of Economics.