Simple ideas work best

Sometimes the simplest ideas work the best especially when it comes to environmental policy. Today the Campaign for the Preservation of Rural England launches its Stop the Drop campaign in a bid to raise awareness of the impact of litter and fly-tipping. And Government minister Joan Ruddock is quoted in today’s Times saying that she is receptive to the idea of restoring compulsory deposits on plastic drinks bottles and aluminium containers as a way of incentivising people to take bottle back for recycling and reducing the volumes heading for landfill. It has worked in the past - ask the good people of Oregon. What is stopping the government? Get on with it!

Unit 2 Macro: Cyclical and Structural Economic Issues Facing the UK [23 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Evaluation on Supply-Side Policies [21 May 2012]
Revision notes on unemployment [20 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Economics of Cocoa Prices [12 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Economics of a Minimum Wage [12 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Public Bads [12 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Revision Notes on Supply-side Policies [10 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Unemployment 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 1 Micro: The Collapsing Price of Carbon [3 Apr 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision on Producer Subsidies [2 Apr 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision on Producer Cartels [31 Mar 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Policies to Drive Economic Recovery [9 Mar 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Winning the War on Deforestation [5 Feb 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Videos on Productivity [17 Jan 2012]
Economics at the Movies - Freakonomics [9 Jan 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Externalities from Metal Theft [2 Jan 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Biomass Subsidies and Timber Prices [30 Dec 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Sub Normal Profits - BP Leaves the Solar Industry [21 Dec 2011]
Economics of Deforestation [20 Dec 2011]
Prezi on Information Failures [20 Dec 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: Long Term Unemployment - A Human Story [15 Dec 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: Will a Youth Jobs Subsidy Work? [30 Nov 2011]
LSE lecture: Darwin economy [13 Nov 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: Video Clips on Unemployment [6 Nov 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Impulses to Change Management Models [5 Nov 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: UK Executive Pay - All in it Together? [29 Oct 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Is the Sun Dipping on Solar Subsidies? [27 Oct 2011]
Can the “invisible hand” solve Africa’s poverty? [13 Oct 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Copper prices and a copper crime wave [10 Oct 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Waste Mountains as Above Ground Mining [6 Oct 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: The Supply and Demand Rap! [28 Sep 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Drink Driving and Government Intervention [26 Sep 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Exercise on Market Supply [26 Sep 2011]
50% tax rates - Chuck it George [7 Sep 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: Reducing Unemployment after a Recession [11 Jul 2011]
Glastonbury, rain, mud, abandoned tents and negative externalities. [4 Jul 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Are carbon taxes ineffective? [20 Jun 2011]
Poor Economics - Esther Duflo at the LSE [3 Jun 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Supply-Side Policies [25 May 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Monopsony Power in Markets [19 May 2011]
Super-cooperators and Game Theory [19 May 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Perfect Competition [19 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Innovation Efficiency and Welfare [18 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Ownership and Control in Modern Businesses [18 May 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Diseconomies of Scale [18 May 2011]
Dominos Pizza turns to Behavioural Economics [5 May 2011]
AS Micro Revision: Public and Private Goods [21 Apr 2011]
Key AS Micro Terms: Prices [15 Apr 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Frictional Unemployment [11 Apr 2011]
RES Essay Competition - Obesity and a Fat Tax [7 Apr 2011]
AS Micro Revision: Banana Prices [1 Apr 2011]
The Power of Incentives [31 Mar 2011]
Economics Q&A: Should the CAP be scrapped? [14 Feb 2011]
EU Economics: Hopes for a low carbon future in Europe [3 Feb 2011]
Youth Unemployment in the UK [24 Jan 2011]
Winner of the Fun Theory Competition [23 Jan 2011]
Economics Q&A: What are some of the benefits and drawbacks of a period of rising world food prices [4 Jan 2011]
Giveacar - a Social Enterprise [4 Jan 2011]
Trees as private and public goods [3 Jan 2011]
Behavioural Economics - Public Policy and Behavioural Change [30 Dec 2010]
Promising news on deforestation [2 Dec 2010]
Boris’s Bikes - Gearing up for Success? [30 Oct 2010]
Jerome Kerviel and the Principal Agent Problem [5 Oct 2010]
Animating the Ultimatum Game [6 Sep 2010]
Inequality and the risk of financial crisis [25 Aug 2010]
The Upside of Irrationality [22 Jul 2010]
Questions in Behavioural Economics - Combatting obesity [30 Jun 2010]
Recycling waste - goodbye stick, hello carrot [7 Jun 2010]
Innovation to get the British economy growing again [7 Jun 2010]
Unit 2 Macro: How can supply-side policies help in a recession? [6 Jun 2010]
Housing and the British Economy [5 Jun 2010]
Specific Supply Side policies [5 Jun 2010]
A selection of revision notes on supply side policies [1 Jun 2010]
Unit 3 Micro: Efficiency and Price Intervention in Markets [21 May 2010]
A2 Economics Revision - Direct and Indirect Taxation [9 May 2010]
Sustainability - building a building from plastic bottles [3 May 2010]
Issues and Prospects for the UK Economy in 2010 [25 Apr 2010]
Build a Tower - Build a Team [22 Apr 2010]
A Fun Way to Get People to Obey Speed Limits [2 Apr 2010]
RES Essay Competition - Inequality Title [1 Apr 2010]
Behavioural economics - lessons from an ad man [9 Mar 2010]
Recycling batteries - keeping things simple [10 Feb 2010]
Climate Crunch - Making the Economics Fit [4 Feb 2010]
Focus on the National Minimum Wage [24 Jan 2010]
Jimmy’s Global Harvest [8 Jan 2010]
How Markets Fail - the logic of economic calamities [26 Dec 2009]
Taxing time for pubs [27 Nov 2009]
Law and Morality in Economic Life [26 Nov 2009]
Stimulating Times [4 Nov 2009]
New series of BBC Earth Report - Deforestation and Externalities [27 Oct 2009]
Peak oil theory and economic implications [25 Oct 2009]
Lessons from an Ad Man - Superb microeconomics! [25 Oct 2009]
A Case Study in Labour Mobility - 50 Jobs in 50 Weeks [15 Oct 2009]
Human and social capital and pathways to prosperity [14 Oct 2009]
Wall Street Partnerships and Principal Agent Problem [12 Oct 2009]
Escaping from the Poverty Trap [11 Oct 2009]
Second-hand car market – law of unintended consequences [13 Sep 2009]
Apprentice Jockeys and Low Wages [9 Sep 2009]

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