Unit 2: A cost of rapid Chinese economic growth

.. in Beijing records the BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-18245040#

a) What is the cost of growth identified?
b) Explain one other cost from the rapid expansion of Beijing

Unit 2: critisisms of GDP

.....from one of my heroes as I was growing up, Robert Kennedy (if you're too young and the name means nothing, google him or go to Wikipedia), courtesy of the guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/may/24/robert-kennedy-gdp

Unit 1: Which policies could promote economic growth?

A fantastic summary of how fiscal, monetary and supply side policies could help achieve economic growth from economicshelp

http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/5272/economics/policies-for-economic-growth/

Unit 2: The components of Aggregate Demand

Explanation and data from tutor2u

http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/5301/economics/components-of-aggregate-demand/

Unit 1: Supply and Demand: Revision powerpoint

....from tutor2u

http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/comments/unit-1-micro-revision-presentation-on-the-price-mechanism?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+economics_news+%28tutor2u+Economics+Blog%29#When:16:23:21Z

Unit 2: Youth unemployment in the UK and across the OECD

Get the data for different regions of the UK from the Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2011/nov/16/youth-unemployment-map

and comparisons across the OECD

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/may/16/youth-unemployment-europe-oecd

a) How equitably is youth unemployment spread across
1.the UK?
2. the OECD?

Unit 1: Elasticity: Revision posts from tutor2u

Price ED

http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/comments/unit-1-micro-price-elasticity-of-demand?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+economics_news+%28tutor2u+Economics+Blog%29#When:11:40:29Z

and powerpoint

http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/comments/unit-1-micro-revision-presentation-on-elasticity-of-demand?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+economics_news+%28tutor2u+Economics+Blog%29#When:16:38:21Z

Income ED

http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/comments/unit-1-micro-income-elasticity-of-demand

Price ES

http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/comments/unit-1-micro-price-elasticity-of-supply

and powerpoint

http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/comments/unit-1-micro-revision-presentation-on-elasticity-of-supply

Unit 1: What will be the effect of a minimum alcohol price?

This Guardian article shows how prices will be effected

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/may/14/scotland-minimum-alcohol-price-effect

and this article from tutor2u

http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/gcse-economics/comments/demand-and-supply-in-action-minimum-price-on-alcohol

Unit 2: Revision: Supply side policies

Revision from tutorhttp://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/comments/unit-2-macro-revision-notes-on-supply-side-policies?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+economics_news+%28tutor2u+Economics+Blog%29#When:16:00:29Z2u

Unit 2: Macro data: May 2012

Great data from tutor2u

http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/comments/macro-revision-key-statistics-on-the-uk-economy?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+economics_news+%28tutor2u+Economics+Blog%29#When:07:23:14Z

Unit 1: Are youngsters suffering from information failure about alcohol?

Great clip from the BBC about youngsters in the North East

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17983721#

Unit 1: Negative externalities from excessive alcohol consumption in Australia

Just the same as in the UK, reports Aljazeera

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOKWKBItuCg

Unit 2: Youth unemployment; the problem and possible solutions

A nice summary, including comparative EU data, from economicshelp

http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/5245/economics/how-to-deal-with-youth-unemployment/

Unit 2: Macroeconomic data: May 2012

Latest data thanks to tutor2u

http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/comments/macro-revision-key-statistics-on-the-uk-economy?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+economics_news+%28tutor2u+Economics+Blog%29#When:07:23:26Z

Unit 1: The fall in demand for Nintendo products

....acording to the BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17853764#

a) Using the determinants of demand, explain the fall in demand for Nintendo products

b) Draw a diagram to show what has happened to the demand curve for Nintendo products