Revision: Capital investment in the UK

In 2007 the real level of capital investment spending by private sector businesses in the UK economy reached a record high of £142 billion. This is good news for the longer term health of the economy given the demand and supply-side benefits that flow from viable and good quality capital investment projects. This revision note is aimed at AS macroeconomists and considers some of the factors that affect private sector investment spending and the economic impact.

Pdf file
Revision_Investment.pdf

Revision mindmap
Investment.mmap

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Unit 2 Macro: Focus on China - Trade and Growth [27 Jan 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Focus on India - Supply Side Issues [25 Jan 2012]
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Unit 4 Macro: Russia Joins the WTO [22 Jan 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: World’s Largest Solar Plant Opens [15 Jan 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Frontier Markets - the New BRICS? [15 Jan 2012]
Beyond the Bike - The Importance of Remittances [15 Jan 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Time to Re-Boot the British Economy [14 Jan 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Economics of Fiscal Deficit Reduction [12 Jan 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Competitive Advantage in Trade (Some Videos) [12 Jan 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Factors Driving Business Investment [10 Jan 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Natural Disasters and their Economic Impact [7 Jan 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: The UK Housing Market in 2011 [26 Dec 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: Brazil Overtakes UK in Economic Size [26 Dec 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Sub Normal Profits - BP Leaves the Solar Industry [21 Dec 2011]
Economic Corruption - Global Rankings for 2011 [19 Dec 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: Does UK Manufacturing have a Future? [30 Nov 2011]
Where is the UK Economy? National Output [22 Nov 2011]
AS Macro: The State of British Business [13 Nov 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Costs and Benefits of a Super Sewer for London [1 Nov 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Google Maps to Charge for Usage [31 Oct 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: Economic Importance of Investment [19 Oct 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: Positive and Negative Multiplier Effects [14 Oct 2011]
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Skidelsky in Madrid [12 Oct 2011]
Why Is Macroeconomics Such A Mess? [11 Oct 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Producing Coffee - Kenya in Pictures [4 Oct 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: Savings and Banking to enhance Development [16 Aug 2011]
Monetary Policy Roundtable [25 Jul 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: Reducing Unemployment after a Recession [11 Jul 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Oligopsony - Dairy Losses Drive Farmers from the Fields [10 Jul 2011]
UK firms wake up to Brazilian opportunities [21 Jun 2011]
Six Global Trends Shaping Business Strategy [15 Jun 2011]
Chinese inward investment in the London property market [12 Jun 2011]
Is Cost Benefit Analysis of our natural environment ‘a slippery slope’? [3 Jun 2011]
Macro Revision: Putting Things in Context [25 May 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Supply-Side Policies [25 May 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Trend Growth [23 May 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Recession [23 May 2011]
Revision notes on unemployment [22 May 2011]
A2 Micro:  Monopsony Power in Markets [19 May 2011]
A2 Micro: The Importance of Profit [19 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Innovation and Economic Policies [18 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Ownership and Control in Modern Businesses [18 May 2011]
A2 Micro: External Economies of Scale [18 May 2011]
AS economics: Using the cost-benefit principle [18 May 2011]
A2 Macro: Revealed Advantage [12 May 2011]
UK Economy Update: What Mervyn Said [11 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Innovation in Markets [4 May 2011]
A2 Macro: Chinese investment in the EU [3 May 2011]
AS and A2 Macro Revision: Keynesian Economics [28 Apr 2011]
AS and A2 Macro Revision: The China Effect [26 Apr 2011]
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AS Macro Key Term: Double-Dip Recession [8 Apr 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Gross National Income (GNI) [7 Apr 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Current Account Deficit [2 Apr 2011]
Progress towards low carbon economic growth [18 Mar 2011]
AS Macro Revision: Investment Spending [12 Mar 2011]
Chinese and Indian Railways - Importance of Infrastructure [25 Feb 2011]
Never Mind Plan B - Plan V needed for the UK Economy! [17 Feb 2011]
Combining monetary and fiscal policy to curb inflation in China [16 Feb 2011]
Shared Value and the Limitations of CSR [12 Feb 2011]
5 Fresh Links: Videos to attract FDI [4 Feb 2011]
Globalisation - Peering into the MIST? [1 Feb 2011]
Variations in Regional Economic Growth [25 Jan 2011]
Economics Q&A: Will the rise in VAT harm the UK’s economic performance? [17 Jan 2011]
Manufacturing growth in the UK [30 Dec 2010]
Growth and Strategy at Domino’s Pizza [27 Nov 2010]
Using Google Docs - A2 Applied Micro on Collusion [21 Nov 2010]
Will Ferrell is Hollywood’s most overpaid actor [10 Nov 2010]
Successors to Roosevelt and Kruger - Marine Parks of the Sea [8 Nov 2010]
The Acid Burns Through - Requiem for Neo Liberalism [28 Oct 2010]
Asia Rising - Thai Car Exports Speeds Up Growth [27 Oct 2010]
Breaking the Poverty Trap [20 Oct 2010]
Risks of over-capacity in Chinese car making [17 Oct 2010]
A million jobs at risk from spending cuts [14 Oct 2010]
Fiscal austerity: Next stop: Pensions [14 Oct 2010]
Departing from pure profit maximisation [14 Oct 2010]
Two super transport economics resources [8 Oct 2010]
Video resources on UK economic growth [6 Oct 2010]
Whisky galore - investment in the Scottish economy [29 Sep 2010]
Germany speeds ahead [13 Aug 2010]
Reasons to fear a jobless recovery [11 Aug 2010]
Cocoa Economics [30 Jul 2010]
Revision Note: China and the World Economy [23 Jun 2010]
How can supply-side policies help in an economic recession? [6 Jun 2010]
Specific Supply Side policies [5 Jun 2010]
Paul Krugman at the LSE [2 Jun 2010]
A selection of revision notes on the balance of payments [1 Jun 2010]
A selection of revision notes on supply side policies [1 Jun 2010]
AS Macro Revision: Household Saving [30 May 2010]
Q&A: What do we need to know about output gaps? [29 May 2010]
Warnings of hysteresis for the EU economy [29 May 2010]
AS Macro: Sterling and the UK Economy [29 May 2010]
Is the UK coal industry turning a corner? [24 May 2010]
Revision Presentation - US Economy Chartroom [23 May 2010]
A2 Economics Revision - The US and the UK Economy [23 May 2010]
A2 Economics Revision - Data Description Revision on BoP [22 May 2010]
A2 Economics Revision - Efficiency and Price Intervention in Markets [21 May 2010]

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