Revision guide to AS level economics /
James Keefe and Peter Cramp
- Stocksfield, Northumberland : Anforme, c2008
- v, 98 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Unit I: Micro. - 1. Introduction to economics. - 2. Production and economies of scale. - 3. Demand and supply analysis. - 4. Elasticity. - 5. The price mechanism. - 6. Market failure - monopoly. - 7. Market failure - externalities, merit and demerit goods, public goods. - 8. Market failure - imperfect information, immobility of resources, unstable commodity prices, lack of equity. - 9. Government intervention - indirect taxes, subsidies, state provision. - 10. Government intervention - price controls and buffer stocks. - 11. Government intervention - regulation, extending property rights, tradable pollution permits. - 12. Government failure. - 13. Wages and the national minimum wage. -- Unit 2: Macro. - 14. Macroeconomic indicators. - 15. Living standards and economic development. - 16. The circular flow of income and aggregate demand. - 17. Aggregate supply and macroeconomic equilibrium. - 18. Consumption, saving and investment. - 19. Economic growth. - 20. Unemployment. - 21. Inflation. - 22. The current account of the balance of payments. - 23. International trade and exchange rates. - 24. Fiscal policy. - 25. Monetary policy. - 26. Supply side policies.