Economics (9640)

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Free Economics (9640) study notes for Oxford AQA International AS Level students. Each chapter below covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take into the thinka app.

The economic problem and methodology

How markets work

  • The demand for goods and services

  • Price, income and cross elasticities of demand

  • The supply of goods and services

  • Price elasticity of supply

  • The determination of market prices

  • The interrelationship between markets

  • How markets and prices allocate resources

An introduction to production, costs, revenue and profit

  • Production and productivity

  • Specialisation, division of labour and exchange

  • Costs of production

  • Economies and diseconomies of scale

  • Average revenue, total revenue and profit

Competitive and concentrated markets

  • Market structures

  • The objectives of firms

  • Competitive markets

  • Monopoly and monopoly power

  • The competitive market process

Market failure and government intervention in markets

  • The meaning of market failure

  • Private goods, public goods and quasi-public goods

  • Positive and negative externalities in consumption and production

  • Merit and demerit goods

  • Market imperfections

  • An inequitable distribution of income and wealth

  • Government intervention in markets

  • Government failure

The measurement of macroeconomic performance

  • The objectives of government economic policy

  • Macroeconomic indicators

How the macroeconomy works

  • The circular flow of income

  • Aggregate demand and aggregate supply analysis

  • Determinants of aggregate demand

  • Aggregate demand and the level of economic activity

  • Determinants of short-run aggregate supply

  • Determinants of long-run aggregate supply

Economic performance

  • Economic growth and the economic cycle

  • Employment and unemployment

  • Inflation and deflation

  • The balance of payments on current account

  • Possible conflicts between macroeconomic policy objectives

Macroeconomic policy

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