Description
Book SynopsisExam Board: Edexcel
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: Economics
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2016
Develop your students'' knowledge of themes 1 and 2 of the Edexcel specification and put theory into context with focused case studies and practice activities.
Maximise their potential in Edexcel A level Economics A with this Edexcel-endorsed textbook, which includes topic-by-topic guidance from Peter Smith:
- Keep your students'' up to date with the rapidly changing world: new exciting case studies will help them analyse and evaluate
- Build their quantitative skills with worked examples and practice activities throughout the book
- Ensure they can explain key economic concepts and issues accurately and effectively:
learn the key terms throughout the text and in the theme-by-theme glossaries
- Feel confident in their exam skills: put what they learn into practice with activities and pract
Table of Contents
- THEME 1: INTRODUCTION TO MARKETS AND MARKET FAILURE
- Chapter 1: The nature of economics
- Chapter 2: The nature of demand
- Chapter 3: The nature of supply
- Chapter 4: How markets work: price determination
- Chapter 5: How markets work: the price mechanism in action
- Chapter 6: Market failure: externalities
- Chapter 7: Market failure: public goods and information gaps
- Chapter 8: Government intervention and government failure
- Theme 1: key terms
- Theme 1: practice questions
- THEME 2: THE UK ECONOMY - PERFORMANCE AND POLICIES
- Chapter 9: Measures of economic performance: economic growth
- Chapter 10: Aggregate demand
- Chapter 11: Aggregate supply
- Chapter 12: National income and macroeconomic equilibrium
- Chapter 13: Economic growth
- Chapter 14: Macroeconomic policy objectives
- Chapter 15: Macroeconomic policies
- Theme 2: key terms
- Theme 2: practice questions
