The claimant count: Explanation and data

Thanks to economicshelp for this

http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/14529/unemployment/claimant-count-unemployment/

Unemployment data

Thanks to economicshelp for this

http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/5695/alevel/unemployment-stats-and-graphs/

Automated milk processing

A good example of capital intensive production from the BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34266212

Is instant coffee an inferior good?

Tutor2u pose the question
http://beta.tutor2u.net/economics/blog/coffe-snobs-who-refuse-to-drink-instant

Free sun cream in Miami; a way to reduce market failure?

Nice story from the BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34153206

Environmental damage from Indonesian tin mining

Thanks to Aljazeera for this report

http://video.aljazeera.com/channels/eng/videos/illegal-indonesian-tin-mining-damaging-environment/4426342686001

Assumptions in economics

Thanks to tutor2u for this

http://beta.tutor2u.net/economics/blog/assumptions-in-economics

Monopoly fact sheet

Thanks to tutor2u for this sample

http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/tutor2u-media/subjects/economics/downloads/as-micro-companion-sample-topic.pdf?mtime=20150903071511

Negative externalities from skiing in Switzerland

Thanks to the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34124473

Employment rate data

Thanks to tutor2u for this

http://beta.tutor2u.net/economics/reference/employment-rate

Nissan and Hitachi invest in the North-East

Thanks to the BBC for these 2 stories

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34136541 Nissan
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-34130229 Hitachi

The derived demand for labour: Pilots in China

Nice example of the scale of the increase in derived demand for pilots

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1659202292001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAAmtVJIFk~,TVGOQ5ZTwJbsT0Mq3k9H8GCa4jV3vL4M&bctid=3925344337001

The effect of migration on the labour market

Nice clip from ITV summarising the issues in this tutor2u post

http://beta.tutor2u.net/economics/blog/huge-rise-in-net-inward-migration-into-the-uk

Average wage differences in the UK

Interesting map from tutor2u
http://beta.tutor2u.net/economics/blog/average-weekly-earnings-by-uk-city

Economic systems: The invisible hand and the free market system

Thanks to tutor2u for this
http://beta.tutor2u.net/economics/blog/the-invisible-hand-bbcs-a-history-of-ideas

Economies and diseconomies of scale

Quick-fire test from tutor2u

http://beta.tutor2u.net/economics/blog/internal-and-external-economies-of-scale-a-quick-fire-quiz

e-cigarettes and externalities

Are they positive or negative? Interesting article from the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34051996
and tutor2u
http://beta.tutor2u.net/economics/blog/e-cigarettes-government-policy-to-combat-demerit-good-or-government-failure-example

Record UK netmigration

....reports the BBC
What effect on the UK's PPF, AD and AS?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34076607
and from tutor2u
http://beta.tutor2u.net/economics/blog/huge-rise-in-net-inward-migration-into-the-uk

A merger in the £1 market

...reports sky

http://news.sky.com/story/1541253/poundlands-99p-stores-takeover-gets-go-ahead

The demand for chocolate

Interesting Sky report
http://news.sky.com/story/1542014/chocolate-demand-melts-away-as-prices-rise