Government legislation week

In time for the start of term, there is lots of legislation coming into force this week. There’s the third rise in petrol duty in nine months, starting today, with the return of VAT to 17.5% at the end of year to come – is this the price of going green, or the price of a budget deficit?

Secondly, as the 2005 Licensing Scotland Act comes into force this week, potentially there are going to be no more “happy hours” in Scotland – will this solve the negative externalities from excessive alcohol consumption or just lead to government failure?

Thirdly, an EU ban on 100W incandescent light bulbs has come into force, in favour of fluorescent bulbs – A bright idea to save the planet or a stab in the dark at reducing energy consumption?

Unit 4 Macro: Focus on India - World’s Cheapest Computer [26 Jan 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: The Economics of Solar Subsidies [18 Jan 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Samsung and LG fined for price fixing [13 Jan 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Prezi on Environmental Economics [11 Jan 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision MC Questions on Negative Externalities [8 Jan 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Prezi on the Economics of Negative Externalities [2 Jan 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Video Clips on Negative Production Externalities [29 Dec 2011]
Keeping it local [24 Nov 2011]
Beyond the Bike - What is the value of life in Africa? [19 Nov 2011]
Pasty Prices - Something to Chew Over [19 Nov 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Time of Use Pricing for Energy [2 Nov 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Economies of Scale and the Kinect [31 Oct 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Google Maps to Charge for Usage [31 Oct 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Price Discrimination in the E-Book Market [31 Oct 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Is the Sun Dipping on Solar Subsidies? [27 Oct 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: University fees and elasticity of demand [24 Oct 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Economists attack food price speculation [24 Oct 2011]
Alcohol. Discuss! [18 Oct 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Tesco Behaving Badly - Price Anchoring [17 Oct 2011]
Fat tax: Denmark [5 Oct 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Homework Assignment on Market Prices [2 Oct 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Coast Guard Protection and Moral Hazard [29 Sep 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: The Supply and Demand Rap! [28 Sep 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Exercise on Equilibrium Market Prices [27 Sep 2011]
Putting the “discrimination” into price discrimination! [26 Sep 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Drink Driving and Government Intervention [26 Sep 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Exercise on Market Demand [25 Sep 2011]
Scarce resources, immigration and the NHS [16 Sep 2011]
Study Note - Economic Systems [13 Sep 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: Value Added in Production and GDP [11 Sep 2011]
Friday night out at A and E [5 Sep 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: Baltic Dry Index and Global Weakening [19 Aug 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: The Price of Football [2 Aug 2011]
Merit goods, information failure, and an ironic death! [6 Jul 2011]
Not so much food inflation, but food hyperinflation! [30 May 2011]
No more lighting up in Central Park? [25 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Competition Policy [20 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Price Discrimination [19 May 2011]
A2 Micro:  Monopsony Power in Markets [19 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Minimum Efficient Scale [18 May 2011]
Electric car charging points ‘shortfall’ [11 May 2011]
AS Micro: What´s really behind the oil price rise? [10 May 2011]
AS Micro: Government Failure in Wind Farms [4 May 2011]
AS Micro: Rising Global Food Prices [2 May 2011]
AS Micro: Revision on Government Failure [1 May 2011]
AS Micro: Mock Exam Question on Sugar Prices [28 Apr 2011]
AS Micro Revision: Public and Private Goods [21 Apr 2011]
Key AS Micro Terms: Costs and Profits [16 Apr 2011]
Key AS Micro Terms: Prices [15 Apr 2011]
Information Failures: Tesco and Second Hand Cars [3 Apr 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Relative deflation [2 Apr 2011]
AS Micro Revision: Banana Prices [1 Apr 2011]
OCR F585 June 2011: Data Charts [30 Mar 2011]
Keeping Track of UK Macro Objectives [18 Mar 2011]
Timetric: Mortgage Lending and Mortgage Rates [14 Mar 2011]
AS Macro Revision: Investment Spending [12 Mar 2011]
Information Failure: The UK Illicit Drug Market [28 Feb 2011]
Fraud hits EU carbon emissions trading [20 Feb 2011]
The rise of the consumer regulator [15 Feb 2011]
Economics Q&A: Should the CAP be scrapped? [14 Feb 2011]
Ways to watch movies - cross elasticity of demand in action! [3 Feb 2011]
EU Economics: Hopes for a low carbon future in Europe [3 Feb 2011]
Shorting the market - the vultures target HMV [23 Jan 2011]
Economics Q&A: How might rising food prices affect food retailers and manufacturers in the UK? [16 Jan 2011]
A Motorbiking Triumph [13 Jan 2011]
Heard the one about the £250,000 fish? [11 Jan 2011]
Economics Q&A: What are some of the benefits and drawbacks of a period of rising world food prices [4 Jan 2011]
Behavioural Economics - Public Policy and Behavioural Change [30 Dec 2010]
HMV on the brink? [9 Dec 2010]
OCR A2 Economics F585 (Feb 2011) - Price Volatility [8 Dec 2010]
AS Micro Revision - Market Forces and Resource Allocation [2 Dec 2010]
Orange, iPads and the Lock In effect [29 Nov 2010]
Growth and Strategy at Domino’s Pizza [27 Nov 2010]
Energy Oligopoly - Price Investigation is Launched [26 Nov 2010]
Agflation - a new food price crisis in 2011? [18 Nov 2010]
Chips - a demerit good. [11 Nov 2010]
Switching Off Street Lighting [10 Nov 2010]
Watch out for the £7 chocolate bar! [9 Nov 2010]
The Market for Potash [30 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Austin Powers and Inflation [23 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Hudsucker Proxy and Consumer Demand [21 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Billy Ray Valentine learns commodities [20 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Pretty Woman, Consumer and Producer Surplus [19 Oct 2010]
Picturenomics (1) - Congestion and Externalities [18 Oct 2010]
Price mechanism in action - student car insurance [16 Oct 2010]
Lifting the cap on tuition fees - a question of price elasticity? [10 Oct 2010]
From heart transplants to watermelons - elasticity of demand [5 Oct 2010]
Running out of Monet [1 Oct 2010]
Damien Hirst - Artist and Economist ? [30 Sep 2010]
Are the Chinese to blame for rising wine prices? [20 Sep 2010]
Scotland nudges towards minimum alcohol price [3 Sep 2010]
Searching for the right price for water [30 Aug 2010]
Potash - a battle for grey dust that has become gold dust [26 Aug 2010]
Lesson Worksheet - Cross Price Elasticity of Demand [21 Aug 2010]
Lesson Worksheet - Price Elasticity of Demand [13 Aug 2010]
Cocoa Economics [30 Jul 2010]
Ethiopia’s electronic market place [6 Jun 2010]
AS Macro: Macroeconomic Performance [5 Jun 2010]
AS Macro Revision: Cost Push Inflation [31 May 2010]
Sugar price volatility - uncertainty for producers and consumers [29 May 2010]

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