Using Manufactured Landscapes in teaching economic concepts

Unit 3 Micro: Game Theory and Business Economics [21 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Positive and Negative Multiplier Effects [20 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: The Importance of Productivity [20 May 2012]
Q&A: What do we need to know about output gaps? [20 May 2012]
Revision notes on unemployment [20 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision on Rice Prices [13 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Price Elasticity of Supply [13 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Economics of Cocoa Prices [12 May 2012]
Made in China - but not quite so cheaply…... [7 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Aggregate Demand Glossary [5 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: End of the Road for the Lada [29 Apr 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Revision on Scale Economies and MES [5 Apr 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision on Price Elasticity of Supply [5 Apr 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Revision on the Law of Diminishing Returns [4 Apr 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision on Producer Subsidies [2 Apr 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Revision on Scale Economies, Technology and Prices [1 Apr 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Revision on Index Numbers [31 Mar 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Brazilian coffee buffer stock hit by falling prices [29 Mar 2012]
Price of Stamp increases to 60p [27 Mar 2012]
The Economics of Climate Change - Stern 5 Years On [21 Feb 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Winning the War on Deforestation [5 Feb 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Focus on India - World’s Cheapest Computer [26 Jan 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Videos on Productivity [17 Jan 2012]
China’s newest 5 year plan - and how it could change the world! [12 Jan 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Factors Driving Business Investment [10 Jan 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Biomass Subsidies and Timber Prices [30 Dec 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Inside a Biscuit Factory [1 Dec 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Economies of Scale and the Kinect [31 Oct 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Waste Mountains as Above Ground Mining [6 Oct 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Amazon launches the Kindle Fire [1 Oct 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Exercise on Market Supply [26 Sep 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Division of Labour [22 Sep 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Fixed and Variable Costs [18 Sep 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: Income and Wealth in the UK [12 Sep 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: Value Added in Production and GDP [11 Sep 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Motorsport Valley and External Economies of Scale [12 Jul 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Oligopsony - Dairy Losses Drive Farmers from the Fields [10 Jul 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Economic Recovery [23 May 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Recession [23 May 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Spare Capacity [23 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Competition Policy [20 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Oligopoly and Collusion [20 May 2011]
A2 Micro: The Importance of Profit [19 May 2011]
A2 Micro: High and Low Marginal Cost Products [19 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Outsourcing [18 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Business Growth [18 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Innovation Efficiency and Welfare [18 May 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Diseconomies of Scale [18 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Minimum Efficient Scale [18 May 2011]
AS Micro: Government Failure in Wind Farms [4 May 2011]
AS and A2 Macro Revision: Keynesian Economics [28 Apr 2011]
Wiki Revision: A to Z on Monopoly [23 Apr 2011]
AS Micro: Importance of Elasticity of Supply [23 Apr 2011]
A2 Micro: Changes in Costs and Profits [23 Apr 2011]
Key AS Micro Terms: Competition and Monopoly [17 Apr 2011]
Key AS Micro Terms: Costs and Profits [16 Apr 2011]
Peter Day at the Faber-Castell factory [13 Apr 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Seasonal Unemployment [10 Apr 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Double-Dip Recession [8 Apr 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Under-employment [7 Apr 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Economic Structure [6 Apr 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Aggregate Supply Shock [6 Apr 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Inflationary Pressure [5 Apr 2011]
OPEC oil revenues set to surge above $1 trillion in 2011 [30 Mar 2011]
Focus on Japan - Human Catastrophe, Economic Risks [13 Mar 2011]
Timetric: UK Balance of Trade in Oil [6 Mar 2011]
Economics Q&A: What factors help to explain rising food prices? [14 Feb 2011]
EU Economics: Hopes for a low carbon future in Europe [3 Feb 2011]
Introducing Tuesday Talks! [25 Jan 2011]
The Externalities of Plastic [24 Jan 2011]
An Aggregate Supply puzzle [24 Jan 2011]
Economics Q&A: Tragedy of the Commons and Market Failure [18 Jan 2011]
A2 Macro Revision: The Stock Cycle [31 Dec 2010]
Manufacturing growth in the UK [30 Dec 2010]
Tacit collusion between oil producers and consumers? [12 Dec 2010]
Watch out for the £7 chocolate bar! [9 Nov 2010]
The Market for Potash [30 Oct 2010]
Asia Rising - Thai Car Exports Speeds Up Growth [27 Oct 2010]
Cows with IP addresses and social networks as modes of production [22 Oct 2010]
Economics at the Movies - Manufactured Landscapes [19 Oct 2010]
Substitute goods, scarcity & the recession - Toshiba’s OLED TVs [4 Oct 2010]
Whisky galore - investment in the Scottish economy [29 Sep 2010]
Potash - a battle for grey dust that has become gold dust [26 Aug 2010]
Reasons to fear a jobless recovery [11 Aug 2010]
Cocoa Economics [30 Jul 2010]
A Lewis Turning Point? Wages in China [8 Jun 2010]
AS Macro: Macroeconomic Performance [5 Jun 2010]
AS Macro Revision: Cyclical unemployment [2 Jun 2010]
Sterling and Exports - The Importance of Time Lags [29 May 2010]
Economics of the EU Revision - Carbon Taxes [26 May 2010]
The end of Newcastle Brown Ale brewing on Tyneside [21 May 2010]
Capacity utilisation [25 Apr 2010]
Hundreds of jobs lost as Bosch moves from Wales to Hungary [15 Jan 2010]
Jimmy’s Global Harvest [8 Jan 2010]
Salt Union and Elasticity of Supply [7 Jan 2010]
Assorted Links (6 Jan) [6 Jan 2010]
Is UK manufacturing turning a corner? [4 Jan 2010]
Assorted Links (31 Dec 2009) [31 Dec 2009]
Structural decline in Russian motoring [22 Nov 2009]
230 million unemployed worldwide - the economic and social fallout [29 Oct 2009]