Global Business - who sets our standards

Here is a brief recommendation to those studying globalisation to listen to this programme from the BBC World Service. Presented by Peter Day, it examines the way in which standards are set for the goods we import and consume:‘World trade in goods and services - from the butter on your bread to the existence of the mobile phone - is held together by an invisible web of standards set by all kinds of official and semi official organisations.’ Potentially useful in considering patterns of international trade, regulation, and comparative and competitive advantage.

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Unit 2 Macro: The Current Account of the Balance of Payments [20 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: UK Trade in Services [20 May 2012]
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Unit 2 Macro: Trade and Balance of Payments Glossary [5 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Using the Cost-Benefit Principle [30 Apr 2012]
Macro Revision: Putting Things in Context [29 Apr 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Globalisation Revision Quiz [14 Apr 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Productivity Improvements in China [3 Apr 2012]
Free Trade Agreements [25 Mar 2012]
Solar Panels and Tariffs [21 Mar 2012]
10 Solutions to Binge Drinking [21 Feb 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Focus on India - Comparative Advantage [27 Jan 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Can the UK Computer Games Industry Grow [24 Jan 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Focus on India - Economic Growth [24 Jan 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Russia Joins the WTO [22 Jan 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Samsung and LG fined for price fixing [13 Jan 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Competitive Advantage in Trade (Some Videos) [12 Jan 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: UK Trade Patterns [11 Jan 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Brazil Overtakes UK in Economic Size [26 Dec 2011]
Great Economics Blog to Follow - Danny Quah [15 Dec 2011]
Keeping it local [24 Nov 2011]
Jim O’Neill - The Growth Map: Economic Opportunity in the BRICs and Beyond [22 Nov 2011]
Economics Resources - Week Ended 6 November 2011 [6 Nov 2011]
Latest world trade data [6 Nov 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: China and India - Notes from Martin Wolf [6 Nov 2011]
Trading Troubles [29 Oct 2011]
Tour of the US income distribution – “The L Curve” [25 Oct 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: When China Met Africa [1 Oct 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Coast Guard Protection and Moral Hazard [29 Sep 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: EU proposes a “Tobin Tax” [28 Sep 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: Bangladesh and Comparative Advantage in Textiles [19 Sep 2011]
Scarce resources, immigration and the NHS [16 Sep 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: Progress towards Millennium Goals [12 Sep 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: Inequality and Development [12 Sep 2011]
Starter Video: The Slums of Manilla [11 Sep 2011]
Slicing up the Apple - globalisation graphic [22 Aug 2011]
Guess where China exports its chopsticks from [7 Aug 2011]
A surprising example of trade between the USA, China, and Korea. [19 Jul 2011]
Evan Davis ‘Made in Britain’ - and a new trade data tool to play with [21 Jun 2011]
Six Global Trends Shaping Business Strategy [15 Jun 2011]
Not so much food inflation, but food hyperinflation! [30 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Competition Policy [20 May 2011]
A2 Macro: Revealed Advantage [12 May 2011]
What America makes [4 May 2011]
The New North - Population Shift [23 Mar 2011]
Global supply chain threatened by Japanese disaster [16 Mar 2011]
Dambisa Moyo - How the West was Lost [11 Mar 2011]
EU Economics: Germany leads Euro Zone revival [25 Feb 2011]
The rise of the consumer regulator [15 Feb 2011]
The US-China Trade Deficit [14 Feb 2011]
China and Africa - Resources on their relationship [14 Feb 2011]
Tuesday Talks! African development [8 Feb 2011]
The Chinese are coming! [5 Feb 2011]
Theory Thursday! Utility Possibility Frontier [3 Feb 2011]
Changes in Real Prices [24 Jan 2011]
Economics Q&A: Does the UK economy achieve a trade surplus in anything? [6 Jan 2011]
The Acid Burns Through - Requiem for Neo Liberalism [28 Oct 2010]
Yes- Shift Does Happen! [27 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Black Gold [24 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Manufactured Landscapes [19 Oct 2010]
Update on Millenium Development Goals [19 Sep 2010]
LSE Lecture - Wealth Creation in Developing Countries [19 Sep 2010]
The OECD Insights Series [23 Aug 2010]
Pressure for higher minimum wages in Bangladesh [28 Jul 2010]
A selection of revision notes on global trade and protectionism [3 Jun 2010]
A2 Economics Revision - Protectionism [2 May 2010]
Is 70% of the world economy in a liquidity trap? [18 Mar 2010]
Economists do it with models - explaining trade theory [18 Mar 2010]
Recycling batteries - keeping things simple [10 Feb 2010]
Finding and nurturing competitive advantage in the UK economy [3 Feb 2010]
Making trainers in the UK? How to compete with the world [28 Jan 2010]
Fly in the ointment for export-led growth [18 Jan 2010]
Alcohol information failure [13 Jan 2010]
Navigating our Global Future - Ian Goldin at TED [25 Oct 2009]
Protectionism and the free-market Economist [17 Sep 2009]
King confirms green shoots [15 Sep 2009]
Tobin or not Tobin? [3 Sep 2009]
Explaining comparative advantage [1 Sep 2009]
Government legislation week [1 Sep 2009]
Recession prompts a return to protectionism [28 Jul 2009]
Rise in Baltic Dry Index hints that worst of global trade slump may be over [30 Jun 2009]
Europe Revision: EU Enlargement [4 Jun 2009]
Changing balance of economic power [2 Jun 2009]
Barak sees mileage in fuel efficiency targets [19 May 2009]
Interviews with John Micklethwait at the Big Think [22 Apr 2009]
Trade Adjustment [7 Apr 2009]
Around the World in 80 Trades [3 Apr 2009]
EU Revision: Challenges facing Eastern European Economies [3 Apr 2009]
Blatant protectionism [30 Mar 2009]
Bubble Behaviour [22 Mar 2009]
Dodgy Thermostats and the Global Crisis [6 Mar 2009]
Revision presentation - threats to globalisation [28 Feb 2009]
Stephen King at the Keynes [20 Feb 2009]
Trade Imbalances - Presentation [12 Feb 2009]
Protectionism is the crack of economics [4 Feb 2009]
Globalisation and EU labour law [3 Feb 2009]
Worst case scenario for the UK [29 Jan 2009]
Are economic recessions inevitable? [26 Jan 2009]
Manufactured Landscapes [10 Jan 2009]

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