Wednesday, 29 February 2012

ECON 1 - Micro Economics - Externalities

Study Chapters 10, 11 and 13.

Be prepared to be able to draw externalities diagrams, and illustrate the use of taxes and subsidies in any Economics lesson.

Use Tutor2u links:
negative externalities
positive externalities

Also use You Tube Cherwell Economics Channel:
Externalities
Government intervention - tax

Wednesday, 1 February 2012

A2 Economics - What happened at Davos?

Every year The World Economic Forum of leading politicians, economists and business people meet at Davos to discuss Globalisation. With your ECON 4 Data questions focussing on Globalisation this is a must read: click here for BBC link.

Produce a brief report on what you think were the most critical insights into the Global Economy that came out of the 2012 Davos WEF.