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Instagram, Facebook and Consumer Surplus!

Geoff Riley

19th May 2018

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Reservation prices (how much would you need to be paid to give up Facebook for a month) and consumer surplus from Instagram - some wonderful applied micro here for economics students of all ages!

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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