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Assorted Links (31 Dec 2009)
31st December 2009
1/ Firms move production back to UK (BBC news) based on a new report from the Engineering Employers Federation
2/ Japan pledges to end economic spiral (The Times) - The ten-year plan would see Japan shift some of the focus of its giant economy, with new emphasis placed on environmental technology, science, tourism and medical care.
3/ Economics emerges from the rubble in fragile state (Larry Elliot in the Guardian)
4/ Freakonomics meets More or Less (BBC Radio 4) - Tim Harford gets together with Steve Levitt for a special edition of the excellent Radio 4 programme
5/ Counting the cost of high speed trains (BBC Global Business) - how large are the economic and environmental benefits of investment in new high speed trains?
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.