Economics (9640)

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The operation of markets, market failure and the role of government

  • The economic problem and methodology

  • How markets work

  • An introduction to production, costs, revenue and profit

  • Competitive and concentrated markets

  • Market failure and government intervention in markets

The economic problem and methodology

  • The nature and purpose of economic activity

  • Economic resources

  • Scarcity, choice and the allocation of resources

  • Production possibility diagrams

  • Economic 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 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

The objectives of individuals and firms

  • The individual as a rational economic decision maker

  • Behavioural influences on individual economic decision making

  • The objectives of firms

  • The growth of firms

Costs, revenue and profits

Perfect competition, imperfectly competitive markets and monopoly

  • Market structures

  • Perfect competition

  • Monopolistic competition

  • Oligopoly

  • Monopoly and monopoly power

  • Price discrimination

  • Contestable markets

  • The dynamics of competition and competitive market processes

  • Static efficiency, dynamic efficiency and resource allocation

  • Consumer and producer surplus

  • Competition policy

  • Public ownership, privatisation, regulation and deregulation of markets

The labour market

  • The demand for labour, marginal productivity theory

  • The supply of labour to different labour markets

  • The determination of relative wage rates and levels of employment in perfectly competitive labour markets

  • The determination of relative wage rates and levels of employment in imperfectly competitive labour markets

  • Discrimination in the labour market

  • Minimum wage laws

Poverty and inequality

  • The distribution of income and wealth within an economy

  • Government policies to alleviate poverty and to influence the distribution of income and wealth

Globalisation and trade

The balance of payments, exchange rates and financial markets

Economic growth and development

  • Measuring economic growth, development and living standards

  • Factors that affect economic development

  • Policies to promote development

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