List of Tables

5.1 Drop in production when the farmer wants less bread.
5.2 Production before and after the singer arrives.
8.1 A more realistic response of labour supply to wage level.
8.2 Poorer countries tend to work more hours than rich ones.
8.3 Employment on a self-sufficient estate varies with the share taken by the owners.
8.4 World trade was a smaller proportion of world GDP.
12.1 Village and town economies are unconnected.
12.2 A potato farmer near the town is assumed to be more productive than a village one, for our example.
12.3 Wages when village and town economies are unconnected.
12.4 Wages when village and town economies become connected.
14.1 Some interests are basic to many animals.
14.2 Sin offers more sales opportunities than virtue.
15.1 Social levels at which spending decisions are taken.
17.1 A good environment is only possible if everyone acts collectively to get rid of their cars.
17.2 Road deaths in Britain: death tolls came down as other users abandoned the roads to the car.
18.1 An example of ‘comparative advantage’.
18.2 The biggest profit for a landowner could come from choosing a crop that reduces overall national production.
21.1 At a discount rate of 2.2%, beyond 50 years, the costs we load onto our grandchildren are largely ignored.
21.2 The real costs of monitoring waste for thousands of years could be trillions, but when discounted becomes so small that beyond 200 years it barely changes. (rate used: 2.2%)
26.1 UK income tax rates 2022-23
27.1 Population of the world and of selected countries over the last 2000 years [millions].
27.2 Environmental measures and associated co-benefits.