Posts Tagged ‘supply and demand’

In all my time living Up North, both before I moved to Cambridge and on my return with Paul, I had never been to the Jorvik Viking Centre on Coppergate in York.  This museum and tourist attraction has been open many years and has become a favourite with the many tourists who queue up everyday [...]

I’ve just being watching the news report that London’s congestion is back to the level it was before charging was introduced.  Is anyone actually surprised by this or am I the only one?  What we have now, is the same level of traffic, only this time, it costs the poor motorists more to grind their [...]

What I have never been able to figure out in Hotels that provide mini bars in rooms, is why the prices charged are so prohibitively expensive.  It has over my working life always puzzled me, why this particular aspect of the capitalist society is immune to the normal supply and demand principles that apply to [...]