Hi Simon
I haven't got anything that comes to mind but I would love to what you produce
best wishes
Finbarr Carter
At 11:25 20/09/2002 +0700, you wrote:
> Dear all One of out topics in IB Economics is trade as a
>devlopment stategy for LDC’s, more specifically the problems related
>to this. This includes such ideas as declining terms of trade, reletive
>elasticities, barriers to markets, diminishing returns in agriculture,
>perfectly competitive agricultural markets versus oligoplist selling
>markets etc. In the Summer 2002 exam there was a good question on the
>banana market and how Ffyfes and co. were doing much the same to banana
>growers as Starbucks et al are doing to coffee growers. I would like to
>take advantage of the dearth of information on coffee at the moment to put
>something together for my Year 13 class on this. However, I see a number
>of pitfalls: Devlopment economics tends to be very descriptive and the
>real skill as a teacher is getting economic concepts IN and keeping
>description OUT. Letting the (im)morals of these markets drive students
>motivation but not their analysis or investigation. How does one focus on
>the theoretical explanations that are prevalent? There is so much info
>on this that students, and I, can get lost – much of this
>descriptive. My question (there is a point to this e-mail) is: Does
>anyone have any good ideas of resources that focus on WHY these growers
>receive so little? I am not looking for information that highlights
>capitalist greed, but information such as lack of market power by
>producers, trade barriers, elasticties etc. I have a website here at
>school and can create a page specifically for this. I am reluctant to do
>this if it means that I am just creating another list of links to
>descriptions of the problem. We need Duncan. Any ideas on sources of
>information or how to get the key economics topics involved would be much
>appreciated. I’m off for a coffee (and judging by the normal
>taste of it 2.3 cents a cup is over the odds). Simon Foley Bangkok
>Patana School Thailand
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