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Basic Economic Problems
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- Water Scarcity in India and China
- Food Scarcity (World Hunger)
- Food Scarcity (World Hunger)
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Demand Shift Right
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-UK Housing (Due to low interest rates, and higher cost of substitutes like rent)
-Coffee and Make-up in India (changes in trends and preferences)
-Fast Food (Falling income raising demand for inferior good)
-Coffee and Make-up in India (changes in trends and preferences)
-Fast Food (Falling income raising demand for inferior good)
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Demand Shift Left
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-UK Landline Phones (opposed to mobile phones)
-Newspapers (use of online news outlets)
-Public Transport in China (incomes are rising, people buy more cars)
-Newspapers (use of online news outlets)
-Public Transport in China (incomes are rising, people buy more cars)
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Supply Shift Right
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-Oil/Fracking (due to new technology)
-Bumper Harvests (like oranges, wheat, corn from good weather)
-Indian Subsidies for Fuel, Rice, Gas
-Bumper Harvests (like oranges, wheat, corn from good weather)
-Indian Subsidies for Fuel, Rice, Gas
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Supply Shift Left
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-Gas/Electricity due to poor weather across Europe (made distribution difficult as pipes had frozen up)
-China Manufacturing (increasing costs of production)
-China Manufacturing (increasing costs of production)
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PED Inelastic
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Cigarettes, Alcohol, Fuel, Fast Food, Sugary Drinks, Rail Travel
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PES Inelastic
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Electricity/Gas, Commodities, Housing
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XED Complements
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Coffee Machines and Capsules, Games and Consoles, Shaving Cream and Razors
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XED Substitutes
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Trainers, Phones, Fast Food Burgers
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YED Normal Goods (income goes up, demand goes up)
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Cars, Foreign Holidays, Designer Clothing
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YED Inferior Goods
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Cheap Clothes, Fast Food, Public Transport
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Indirect Taxes
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Fuel Duties, Cigarette Duties, Alcohol Duties, Sugar Tax, VAT (%), Carbon Tax
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Subsidies
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Solar Panels, Electric Cars, Agriculture USA, Fuel Gas Rice India, Vaccinations,
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Minimum Price
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EU Common Agricultural Policy (To protect farmers) CAP, Scottish Alcohol Minimum Price, Ivory Coast Cocoa and Cashews,
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Maximum Price
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Venezuela Staple Food Items, Rent Control (New York and Paris), Proposed Rent Control in UK.
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Negative Externality P
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Chemical/Metal Manufacturing, Resource Depletion, Deforestation,
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Negative Externality C
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Cigarettes, Alcohol, Fast Food, Sugary Drinks
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Positive Externality C
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Education, Vaccinations, Healthcare, Public Transport
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Positive Externality P
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In Work training (other firms benefiting from this), R&D (other firms can copy/steal developed tech ideas like android phones and face ID from apple)
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Public Goods
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Flood Defenses, Roads, Beaches, Street Lights, Road Signs
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CARs
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Air, Sea, Forests
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Regulation of Demerit Goods
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Bans, Age limits, Quotas, Tariffs, Bans on Advertising, In France there is a ban on refilling sugary drinks at fast food places. Time restrictions (like alcohol times/sunday alcohol stores closed in USA)
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State Provision
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Schools in the UK, Healthcare
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Trad able Pollution Permits
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Kyoto Protocol