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Cambridge AS & A Level Economics

1Basic economic ideas and resource allocation (AS Level)

Basic economic ideas and resource allocation (AS Level) in Cambridge AS & A Level Economics: what the syllabus expects you to know, the learning objectives and how to practise.
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  • Scarcity, choice and opportunity cost

    40 min

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  • Economics as a social science: models, positive and normative statements and time periods

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  • Rent, wages, interest and profit: the rewards to the factors of production

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  • The entrepreneur, specialisation and the division of labour

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  • The factors of production

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  • Market, planned and mixed economic systems

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  • Production possibility curves: shapes, shifts and limits

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  • Classifying goods: free, private, public, merit and demerit goods

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Which statement describes a mixed economy?

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