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The Invisible Hand of the Ticket Tout

Penny Brooks

1st March 2015

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How much would you pay to hear your favourite band play live, to watch your team play at Wembley, or to see Benedict Cumberbatch play Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre? If you couldn't get tickets from the official sellers, would you be prepared to pay a premium to a ticket tout?

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Penny Brooks

Formerly Head of Business and Economics and now Economics teacher, Business and Economics blogger and presenter for Tutor2u, and private tutor

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