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Economics at the movies-Bananas!

Jim Riley

7th October 2012

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Preparing to start teaching market failure at AS, I have been looking for some new material. At the library I stumbled across the film http://www.bananasthemovie.com/, a one sided account of alleged illnesses suffered by banana workers. I plan to show a few minutes on the hope it will promote debate on merit goods/externalities. There is some good stuff on CSR on the Dole website too. Watch the trailer using the link below

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Jim Riley

Jim co-founded tutor2u alongside his twin brother Geoff! Jim is a well-known Business writer and presenter as well as being one of the UK's leading educational technology entrepreneurs.

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