Sunday, May 31, 2015

Income inequality: Are we all in this together?

Unlikely if the BBC has got it's options right on how to save £12bn from the welfare budget


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32910848

Crossrail and a positive externality

A nature reserve, reports the BBC


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-32879846

Why is consumption (and therefore growth) stagnent/falling in Japan?

Great clip rom the BBC


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32799139

Information failure? Paracetamol and pregnancy

Possibly, reports the BBC


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-32832784

De-Merit Goods - Banning Legal Highs

Rather than banning specific compounds, the government now intends to use regulation to ban all legal highs
BBC video http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32938598


Ch4 video http://beta.tutor2u.net/economics/blog/de-merit-goods-banning-legal-highs


What would be the costs and benefits of such a move and to what extent would it reduce the market failure associated with legal highs?

Emigration and its effect on the PPF/Economic growth

Dire, for Greece if this tutor2u post is correct


http://beta.tutor2u.net/economics/blog/generation-g-the-greek-brain-drain

China cuts tariffs on imported consumer goods


...reports tutor2u


http://beta.tutor2u.net/economics/blog/china-cuts-tariffs-on-imported-consumer-goods

Costs and benefits; mining in a national park

This proposal has both private and external benefits and costs? Should it be given the go ahead?


http://beta.tutor2u.net/economics/blog/mining-for-polyhalite-in-a-national-park

Inequality: Joseph Stiglitz on The Great Divide

Interesting video


http://beta.tutor2u.net/economics/blog/joseph-stiglitz-on-the-great-divide


and article via tutor2u
http://beta.tutor2u.net/economics/blog/stiglitz-on-falling-living-standards-in-the-uk

Deflation: CPI inflation in the UK turns negative


Reports tutor2u with a BBC video clip


http://beta.tutor2u.net/economics/blog/cpi-inflation-in-the-uk-turns-negative


The key questions this raises from Ch4
http://www.channel4.com/news/inflation-negative-cpi-consumer-prices-index-carney-boe

A supply-side policy: Stricter laws on strike action

As reported by tutor2u


http://beta.tutor2u.net/economics/blog/supply-side-policy-stricter-laws-on-strike-action

Monopoly

A revision presentation from tutor2u


http://www.slideshare.net/tutor2u/basics-of-the-economics-of-monopoly

Perfect competition

A revision presentation from tutor2u


http://www.slideshare.net/tutor2u/perfect-competition-48746354

Contestable markets

A revision presentation from tutor2u


http://www.slideshare.net/tutor2u/contestable-markets-48746179

International trade

A presentation from tutor2u


http://www.slideshare.net/tutor2u/aspects-of-international-trade

International competitiveness

A revision presentation from tutor2u


http://www.slideshare.net/tutor2u/economics-of-international-competitiveness

Production possibility frontier

A revision presentation from tutor2u


http://www.slideshare.net/tutor2u/production-possibility-frontier-revision-presentation

Government failure

A revision presentation from tutor2u


http://www.slideshare.net/tutor2u/government-failure-as-micro

First year glossary

...from tutor2u
Micro http://www.slideshare.net/tutor2u/key-term-glossary-for-as-micro-2015-edition
and macro http://www.slideshare.net/tutor2u/key-term-glossary-for-as-macro-2015