Acknowledgements
This free course was written by Martin Upton.
Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] ), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence.
The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course:
Images
Figure 1 © The Open University.
Figure 2 © George Rex in Flickr.
Figure 3 © The Open University.
Figure 4 © Mark Bowler in Flickr. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/.
Figure 5 photograph: © TaxRebate.org.uk in Flickr.
Figure 7 photograph: © Beao in Wikimedia Commons.
Figure 8 © pixdeluxe/iStockphotos.com
Figure 9 © Danny Ayers, via Flickr https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/.
Figure 10 © Elias Gayles in Flickr. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/.
Figure 12 © All logos shown are Registered Trademarks or Trademarks of their respective companies.
Figure 13 © tracer.ca in Flickr. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/.
Figure 14 © IuriiSokolov/iStockphoto.com.
Figure 15 Source: HM Treasury (2011) A new approach to financial regulation: the blueprint for reform, June 2011, permitted under the terms of the Open Government Licence. © Crown Copyright 2011. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence/p. 8
Figure 18 Image assets: © IuriiSokolov/iStockphoto.com, © iStockphoto.com/georgeclerk, © George Rex in Flickr. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/; © European Union 2011 PE-EP/Pietro Naj-Oleari in Flickr. https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc-nd/ 2.0/
Tables
Table 2: Adapted from Financial Times, 15 September 2015
Table 3: Adapted from Sunday Times Business, 13 September 2015.
Audio visual
Video
2.1.5, 2.2.6, 2.3 and 2.3.2 © The Open University.
2.3.3 © The Open University. Image Asset © AlexLMX/iStockphoto.com.
Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.
Don't miss out
If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses.