How do you spend £691.7bn?

The Guardian’s data team have excelled themselves again in coming up with this interactive guide to government spending. Apart from the PDF and interactive guide, also included in this article are links to the previous year’s spending figures allowing easy viewing of the scale of spending cuts. Interesting for OCR’s ‘Transport Economics’ module is that the biggest departmental cut is for the Department for Transport - which is down over 15%. The link is here – a great resource for those studying fiscal policy and government spending.

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Unit 1 Micro: Public Goods [11 Feb 2012]
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Unit 3 Micro: Oligopoly and Duopoly in Bus Markets [20 Dec 2011]
Ten Things About Tax [23 Nov 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: Analysing Government Spending Cuts [25 Oct 2011]
Study Note - Macroeconomic policy objectives [16 Sep 2011]
Study Note - Introduction to GDP [15 Sep 2011]
The morality of taxation [15 Sep 2011]
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Recession, recovery and the redistribution of income [21 Mar 2011]
VAT and macroeconomic management [4 Jan 2011]
Economics Q&A: Will the Government spending cuts affect inflation? [3 Jan 2011]
A seasonal introduction to Consumption, Government Spending and Aggregate Demand. [22 Dec 2010]
Raising money from taxation - a BBC guide [31 Aug 2010]
Fiscal Austerity - Businesses in the Firing Line [10 Aug 2010]
How are taxes raised and spent? [8 Jun 2010]
Skeletons in the Fiscal Cupboard [17 May 2010]
A2 Economics Revision - Direct and Indirect Taxation [9 May 2010]
AS Economics Revision - Managing the Economy [2 May 2010]
Rethinking the size of the state [14 Mar 2010]
Classic cuts [28 Sep 2009]
Cities dependent on the public sector [16 Jul 2009]
Guardian 2-page spread on government spending [15 Sep 2008]
Revision: The UK Budget Deficit [1 Jun 2008]
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