Keeping it local

Many microeconomics topics benefit from being able to give a local angle. All of these, which cover most areas on Unit 1 Market Failure / Government intervention have been in the Brighton & Hove Argus over the past couple of days

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/9378169.Measles__No_new_outbreaks_in_Brighton_and_Hove/ http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/9380550.March_of_the_supermarkets/

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/9380698.Worthing_debt_firm_takes_on_20_new_staff/
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/9380459.__20k_fundraising_saves_Shoreham_arts_centre/
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/9380393.Postal_fines_for_illegal_parking_in_Brighton_and_Hove/
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/9379642.Traders_fears_at_Brighton_and_Hove_parking_charge_increases/

BMW - Bavarian Monopolist at Work [24 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision Presentation on Government Intervention [16 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision Presentation on Externalities [16 May 2012]
AS / A2 Economics Revision Clinic - Market Failure (Monday 14 May 2012) [14 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Differences between Merit and Public Goods [12 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision Blogs on Markets and Intervention [10 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Fiscal Policy Glossary [5 May 2012]
musical negative externalities [1 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Using the Cost-Benefit Principle [30 Apr 2012]
Royal Mail’s refusal to supply [13 Apr 2012]
Ukraine Hotel ‘Bandits’? [12 Apr 2012]
Government Intervention in the Energy Market [11 Apr 2012]
Football Clubs to Pay for Negative Externalities [11 Apr 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Evaluation Question on Supermarkets [11 Apr 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Revision on Entry Barriers [10 Apr 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Revision on Price Discrimination [9 Apr 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Market Failure in Private Health Care [8 Apr 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Revision on Monopoly Price and Output [6 Apr 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Monopoly and Economic Welfare [6 Apr 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision on Producer Subsidies [2 Apr 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Revision on Real Disposable Income [2 Apr 2012]
Where does my money go? [20 Mar 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Government launches New Buy Loan Guarantee Scheme [12 Mar 2012]
Evidence of the dangers of protectionism [9 Mar 2012]
The Lorax and market failure. [2 Mar 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Low Pay in Supermarkets [24 Feb 2012]
The Economics of Climate Change - Stern 5 Years On [21 Feb 2012]
10 Solutions to Binge Drinking [21 Feb 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Public Goods [11 Feb 2012]
Russia’s monopoly power over gas supplies [5 Feb 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Can the UK Computer Games Industry Grow [24 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]
The future’s not so bright for Orange(s)? [13 Jan 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Prezi on Environmental Economics [11 Jan 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision MC Questions on Public and Private Goods [9 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]
Unit 3 Micro: Sub Normal Profits - BP Leaves the Solar Industry [21 Dec 2011]
Ten Things About Tax [23 Nov 2011]
Analysis and evaluation - do monopolies always make supernormal profits? [21 Nov 2011]
AS Macro: The State of British Business [13 Nov 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Positive and Negative Externalities (AQA) [3 Nov 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Costs and Benefits of a Super Sewer for London [1 Nov 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]
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: Coast Guard Protection and Moral Hazard [29 Sep 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Drink Driving and Government Intervention [26 Sep 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Exercise on Market Supply [26 Sep 2011]
Scarce resources, immigration and the NHS [16 Sep 2011]
50% tax rates - Chuck it George [7 Sep 2011]
Friday night out at A and E [5 Sep 2011]
Merit goods, information failure, and an ironic death! [6 Jul 2011]
The Future of Food Retailing? Tesco in South Korea [27 Jun 2011]
Not so much food inflation, but food hyperinflation! [30 May 2011]
No more lighting up in Central Park? [25 May 2011]
Private vs Public goods - amazing pictures of flood defenses! [23 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Competition Policy [20 May 2011]
Electric car charging points ‘shortfall’ [11 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: Taxes and Subsidies [18 Apr 2011]
Nudge? More like a shove for Aussie smokers! [12 Apr 2011]
Information Failures: Tesco and Second Hand Cars [3 Apr 2011]
Timetric: Income Tax and VAT Revenues [8 Mar 2011]
The rise of the consumer regulator [15 Feb 2011]
Economics Q&A: Should the CAP be scrapped? [14 Feb 2011]
Economics solar power government subsidies [8 Feb 2011]
High taxes stimulate rise in smuggling of cigarettes [6 Feb 2011]
Brisbane before and after the floods [24 Jan 2011]
Monopoly power at the station car park [22 Jan 2011]
Tesco - Time to start a price war! [19 Jan 2011]
Economics Q&A: Will the rise in VAT harm the UK’s economic performance? [17 Jan 2011]
A2 Economics Diagram Checklist [7 Jan 2011]
Trees as private and public goods [3 Jan 2011]
Background on Value Added Tax [31 Dec 2010]
Cashing in on pricing errors? [27 Nov 2010]
Mistletoe and Cider - Interrelated Markets [22 Nov 2010]
Using Google Docs - AS Applied Micro on Car Subsidies [21 Nov 2010]
Are Fiats an Inferior Good? [20 Nov 2010]
Cutting up cotton subsidies? [15 Nov 2010]
Chips - a demerit good. [11 Nov 2010]
Switching Off Street Lighting [10 Nov 2010]
Revision Videos for AS Economics: markets [7 Nov 2010]
Bad Snow Fall in London? [11 Oct 2010]
Running out of Monet [1 Oct 2010]
Evan loves tax [14 Sep 2010]
Raising money from taxation - a BBC guide [31 Aug 2010]
AS Macro Revision: Cost Push Inflation [31 May 2010]
AS Economics Revision - Government Failure [18 May 2010]
A2 Economics Revision - Direct and Indirect Taxation [9 May 2010]
Global Business - who sets our standards [21 Apr 2010]
End of the Road for the Car Scrappage Scheme [31 Mar 2010]
Price discrimination - Tesco and One Stop [22 Mar 2010]
CBI call for changes to work patterns to cut congestion [18 Mar 2010]
Would you like a personalised pothole? [11 Mar 2010]

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