Saturday, 15 October 2011

Lower Sixth Homework : rising food prices

Dear Lower Sixth


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HW due on Monday 17th October


1) be the fastest to draw consumer surplus on the whiteboard - competition on Monday or Tuesday.


2)


From the BBC and Ch4 video explanations

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12124632 BBC
http://www.channel4.com/news/world-food-prices-hit-all-time-high Ch4

Anforme has a blog post on the topic including a nice graphic

http://www.anforme.co.uk/blog/?p=1783

a) Using a S&D diagram, explain why world food prices are rising. (Hint: If you can't do this, then the answer is on this economicshelp posthttp://www.economicshelp.org/blog/economics/food-inflation/ )

b) Using a S&D diagram, explain why the price of cotton clothes are likely to rise




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