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AQA Unit 1 ECON1 Economics: Markets and Market Failure
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Unit 1 Micro: Yunus Calls for International Minimum Wage
Monday, May 13, 2013
Unit 1 Micro: Selection of Revision Presentations
Thursday, May 09, 2013
The exams are nearly here - as if you need reminding! Well, here’s a reminder!
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
AS and A2 Key Term Glossaries
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Unit 1 Micro: Information Failure - Fraudulent Selling
Revision Quiz: AS Economics: Public & Merit Goods (1)
Monday, April 22, 2013
Revision Quiz: AS Economics: Markets in Action (1)
Revision Quiz: AS Economics: Imperfect Markets (1)
AS, A2 & IB Economics Revision Quizzes - Master Listing
Unit 1 Micro: Buffer Stocks (Revision)
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Unit 1 Micro: Price Mechanism in Action (Revision)
Revision Quiz: AS Economics: Government Intervention (1)
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Revision Quiz: AS Economics: Market Failure (2)
Revision Quiz: AS Economics: Market Failure (1)
Revision Quiz: AS Economics: Income & Cross Elasticity of Demand (1)
Revision Quiz: AS Economics: Price Elasticity of Demand (1)
Unit 1 Micro: Carbon Trading Scheme In Crisis
Revision Quiz: AS Economics: Supply & Demand (1)
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Revision Quiz: AS Economics: PPF & Division of Labour (1)
Revision Quiz: AS Economics: Basic Economic Problem (1)
Economics Revision - Mind Map and Visual Notes Competition
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Economics at the Movies - Promised Land
Sunday, April 07, 2013
Happy birthday VAT! 40 years old this month
Unit 1 Micro: Taxing Calories in Soft Drinks
Friday, April 05, 2013
Unit 1 Micro: Externalities of Piracy in Somalia
Thursday, April 04, 2013
AS Economics Revision Notes
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Unit 1 Micro: Falling Car Use among Younger Drivers
Monday, February 18, 2013
Taxing fizzy drinks? The Obesity Battle
Revision Presentation - Public Goods
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Unit 1 Micro: Video Examples of the Division of Labour
Saturday, February 09, 2013
Unit 1 Micro: E-Bikes on Track for Surge in Demand
Monday, January 21, 2013
Paul Ormerod: Telling the Truth about the Retirement Age
Friday, January 18, 2013
Unit 4 Macro: Fair Trade and Development
Saturday, January 12, 2013
AS Micro Revision - Key Term Revision Bank
Friday, January 11, 2013
Unit 1 Micro: Flood Defence for Venice - a Public Good?
Friday, January 04, 2013
Unit 1 Micro: Information Failure in Cosmetic Surgery
Thursday, January 03, 2013
Imperfect Information - obesity caused by the same problem as debt!
Wednesday, January 02, 2013
Unit 1 Micro: Key Term Glossary - Markets and Market Failure
AS Micro: Exam Technique help for the AQA AS Economics ECON1 Paper
Tuesday, January 01, 2013
Don’t You Want Me Baby? - competition regulation in action
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Unit 1 Micro: Rent Controls - Evaluating Government Intervention
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Unit 1 Micro: Markets and Market Failure Concept Glossary
Monday, December 10, 2012
Revision for AS Economics Unit 1 (Micro)
Workplace Discrimination
Friday, December 07, 2012
Goldman Sachs - an example of Diseconomies of scale
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Scoop.It Boards become more popular with Economics teachers
Economics of a Living Wage
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Demand & Supply in Action- Potato Harvest
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
The Nutella Tax - a tax on negative externalities
Unit 1 Micro: Mid-Term Test on Markets
Waseela-e-Taleem in Pakistan - showing how education is an example of a merit good
Monday, November 12, 2012
Unit 1 Micro: Scoop-It on Market Failure and Intervention
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Unit 1 Micro: Denmark Drops the High Fat Food Tax
Unit 1 Micro: How Hot Dogs Are Made
Chocolate Passion - Grown in St Lucia, Made in Cambridge
Friday, November 09, 2012
National Stress Awareness Day
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
Unit 1 Micro: Tragedy of the Commons and Market Failure
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
The 2012 GCSE fiasco - are there parallels with the Banking crisis?
Friday, November 02, 2012
Thinking outside the box - improving employability
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
A Living Wage
Monday, October 29, 2012
Economies of Scale at Google
Unit 1 Micro: Making the Bus Cool!
Friday, October 26, 2012
AS Economics Revision Notes
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Using McDonald’s as an example - I’m loving it
Unit 1 Micro: Bargain Basements for Luxury Goods
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Are Tattoos an example of a Demerit Good?
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Diseconomies of Scale Activities - revisited
Saturday, October 13, 2012
The Kindle and the e-book - the perfect complements
Friday, October 12, 2012
Economics at the movies-Bananas!
Sunday, October 07, 2012
Paul Ormerod: Ninja Turtles, Nick Clegg and Market Failure
Thursday, October 04, 2012
West Coast Rail Line franchise decision - a fine example of Government failure
Wednesday, October 03, 2012
The Big Issue of Poverty in the UK
Tuesday, October 02, 2012
Alcohol as an example of a de-merit good
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Microsoft market domination
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Market Failure - Child Obesity
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Unit 1 Micro: Smartphone Penetration and Creative Destruction
Diseconomies of Scale Activities
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Unit 1 Micro: Capacity problems following Olympic surge in demand
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Benefits linked to inflation
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Unit 1 Micro: Positive and Normative Statements
Monday, September 10, 2012
Unit 1 Micro: Child Poverty 2012 - It Shouldn’t Happen Here
Wednesday, September 05, 2012
Unit 1 Micro: Difficult Times for UK Farmers
Unit 1 Micro: What future for the skateboard industry?
Tuesday, September 04, 2012
Unit 1 Micro: Falling demand prompts Lexmark to exit inkjet market
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Unit 1 Micro: Helium Shortage might be a Party Pooper
Monday, August 27, 2012
Unit 1 Micro: Market Failure Glossary
Unit 1 Micro: Rising Wages and Demand for Robotics
Monday, August 20, 2012
Unit 1 Micro: Drought and US Corn Prices
Wednesday, August 08, 2012
Unit 1 Micro: The Price of a Pizza in Brazil
Environmental Economics: Water Scarcity
Monday, August 06, 2012
Unit 4 Macro: Micro-insurance for Kenyan Farmers
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Unit 1 Micro: Recycling and Reusing Electrical Waste
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Behavioural Economics: Incentives to Cut Road Congestion
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Unit 1 Miro: Greener Fuels for Improved Public Health
Sunday, July 08, 2012
Unit 4 Macro: Malnutrition and Economics Development
Environmental Economics - Earthrise Case Studies
Saturday, July 07, 2012
Environmental Economics: Natural Capital
Friday, July 06, 2012
Unit 1 Micro: Welsh Plastic Bag Charge Reduces Demand
Thursday, July 05, 2012
Students and Spillover Effects
Wednesday, July 04, 2012
Behavioural Economics: Compulsory Breathalysers
Monday, July 02, 2012
