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Market failure and government intervention - revision resource

Ruth Tarrant

18th March 2016

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Following on from my blog post last week which contained a revision resource for AS students to practise their demand and supply diagrams, here's another diagram resource, but this time for some market failure and government intervention diagrams.

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Ruth Tarrant

Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.

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