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Cambridge IGCSE Economics

3Microeconomic decision-makers

Microeconomic decision-makers in Cambridge IGCSE Economics: what the syllabus expects you to know, the learning objectives and how to practise.
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  • Households: spending, saving and borrowing

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  • Workers and the choice of occupation

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  • Competitive markets and perfect competition

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  • Costs of production: fixed, variable, total and average costs

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  • Demand for factors and labour- or capital-intensive production

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  • Private and public sector firms and public corporations

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  • Stages of production and value addition

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  • Barter and money: forms, functions and characteristics

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  • Commercial banks, other financial institutions and the central bank

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  • Small and large firms, growth and mergers

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  • Monopoly

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  • Production and productivity

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  • Revenue: total, average and marginal revenue

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  • Demand for and supply of labour: how wages are determined

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  • Trade unions, employers and government in wage setting

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  • Economies and diseconomies of scale

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  • Objectives of firms

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  • Wage differentials: why wages differ

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  • Occupational and geographical mobility of labour

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  • Specialisation and the division of labour

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Microeconomic decision-makers: sample question

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A fictional brick-moulding firm in Masvingo has fixed costs of US$520 a week. When it makes 130 pallets of bricks a week its variable costs are US$780. Calculate its total cost for the week.

Complete: US$ …

Only if the answer has a unit, e.g. cm or km/h.

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