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UK exporters are set for a sugar rush

Geoff Riley

28th September 2017

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Micro/macro - the great debate - fantastic microeconomic opportunities to look at why the removal of a sugar quota is likely to reduce prices and increase economic welfare - with a welfare loss triangle to boot - and the macroeconomic implications of free trade and the exploitation of comparative advantage.

British Sugar to increase production and create jobs as EU quota ends after nearly 50 years https://t.co/VNXC3Al143 #GBmfg🇬🇧 #jobs pic.twitter.com/4C2COHOLXB
— Jefferson (@Jefferson_MFG) September 27, 2017

So the #EU #sugar quota ends today...not really an example of #publichealth systems thinking. Lots of unknowns remain as, at same time, #Brexit may drive cost of alternatives up. May be a future issue if not in UK but globally. https://t.co/UKbgVIfI4N
— David Johns, PhD (@DavidJohnsRD) September 27, 2017

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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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