Externalities of Oil Pollution

The Boston Globe’s Big Picture has just published a set of remarkable photos. Collectively they are a stunning set of images that reminds one of the economic and social costs of the disaster and the nature of externalities - and colleagues may want to return to this resource to stimulate discussion and support visual learners. Here is the link.

Unit 1 Micro: Revision Presentation on Externalities [16 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Public Bads [12 May 2012]
musical negative externalities [1 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Externalities - Deepwater Horizon 2 Years On [21 Apr 2012]
Externalities in Action- TED Talk [23 Jan 2012]
Externalities in song [22 Jan 2012]
Externalities Cartoon [22 Jan 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision MC Questions on Negative Externalities [8 Jan 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Externalities from Metal Theft [2 Jan 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Video Clips on Negative Production Externalities [29 Dec 2011]
Behavioural Economics: Herd Behaviour [28 Nov 2011]
Fat tax: Denmark [5 Oct 2011]
Electric car charging points ‘shortfall’ [11 May 2011]
Externalities of Nitrogen Pollution in Europe [16 Apr 2011]
Tuesday Talks - the cycling city [8 Mar 2011]
EU Economics: Hopes for a low carbon future in Europe [3 Feb 2011]
The Externalities of Plastic [24 Jan 2011]
Economics Q&A: Tragedy of the Commons and Market Failure [18 Jan 2011]
Chips - a demerit good. [11 Nov 2010]
Switching Off Street Lighting [10 Nov 2010]
Picturenomics (1) - Congestion and Externalities [18 Oct 2010]
Finding new opportunities among the economic wreckage [1 Jun 2010]
Economics of the EU Revision - Carbon Taxes [26 May 2010]
Is the UK coal industry turning a corner? [24 May 2010]
AS Economics Revision - Government Failure [18 May 2010]
Recycling batteries - keeping things simple [10 Feb 2010]
Some new video pieces on externalities [2 Feb 2010]
Is hitch-hiking the most carbon efficient form of transport? [17 Jan 2010]
Alcohol information failure [13 Jan 2010]
Consumption externalities in Singapore [17 Nov 2009]
New series of BBC Earth Report - Deforestation and Externalities [27 Oct 2009]
Scots may lead the way in setting minimum price for alcohol [29 Sep 2009]
£1bn programme to electrify the Great Western Mainline [23 Jul 2009]
Q&A: Demerit Goods and Negative Production Externalities [31 May 2009]
Economies of Scale for Wind Farms [23 May 2009]
Consumers stung by slump in bee population [21 Nov 2008]
Experinomics Resources [17 Nov 2008]
Revision: Labour Market Failure [21 Apr 2008]
OCR 2888 - June Case Study - Broad Themes [24 Mar 2008]
Dioxin contamination and illegal dumping of waste [22 Mar 2008]
Russia’s new road to economic growth [10 Mar 2008]
Money Programme: Green Fuel Gamble [9 Mar 2008]
Information failure on plastic bags? [9 Mar 2008]
Merit and De_Merit Goods [7 Mar 2008]
Is the Smoking Ban Working? [30 Jan 2008]

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