CIE A level economics revision guide

£8.95

  • Specific Cambridge International (CIE) A-level economics revision guide (units 1,2,3,4) – just £8.95
  • Updated for current CIE economics syllabus.
  • E-book (comes in pdf format shortly after purchase.)
  • Trademark simplicity and clarity of presentation.
  • Significantly expanded on previous version, with not just required knowledge, but also examples of evaluation for each topic.
  • For schools – See: Network License – A-level CIE Economics (£105.00) (allowing unlimited use)

Description

  • Recently updated and expanded
  • It is designed specifically for CIE A level economics.

A Level economics revision guide  (E-Book)

  • Simple yet detailed.
  • Content designed to help prepare for likely questions.
  • All main diagrams needed for A Level Economics
  • Tips on writing evaluation – Essential for getting top grades
  • Updated: 2015.
  • Revision guide sent shortly after purchase.
  • Two page sample – CIE 2 Page A-level Sample

AS CIE revision guide

If you would like to buy just CIE AS Revision guide £5.00 (unit 1 and 2)

 

Main parts of syllabus

Paper  1 – AS Microeconomics

  • Scarcity, choice and opportunity cost
  • Opportunity cost
  • Positive and normative economic statements
  • Factors of production
  • Specialisation
  • Different economic systems
  • Production possibility frontiers (PPF)
  • Money
  • Economic goods / free goods
  • Merit good
  • Demerit good
  • Demand
  • Supply
  • Elasticity
    • Income elasticity of demand (YED)
    • Cross elasticity of demand
    • Price elasticity of supply
  • Market equilibrium – demand and supply
  • Consumer surplus
  • Producer surplus
  • Government intervention
    • Minimum prices
    • Maximum
    • Taxation
    • Subsidy
  • Privatisation
  • Public ownership / nationalisation

Paper 2 – AS Macro economy

  • Aggregate demand
  • Consumer spending (C)
  • Investment (I)
  • Government expenditure (G)
  • Net trade (X-M)
  • Aggregate supply (AS)
  • Equilibrium national income
  • Inflation
  • The balance of payments
  • Exchange rates
  • Terms of trade
  • Absolute and comparative advantage
  • Benefits of free trade
  • Protectionism
  • Government macro intervention
  • Fiscal policy
  • Supply side policies
  • Monetary Policy
  • Policies to reduce a current account deficit

Unit  A2 level micro economics

  • Resource allocation
  • Types of efficiency
  • Market Failure
  • Externalities and social efficiency
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis CBA
  • Equi-marginal principle
  • Indifference curves and budget lines
  • Income and substitution effect of a rise in price
  • Costs of production
  • Law of diminishing returns
  • Economies of scale
  • Diseconomies of scale
  • Revenue
  • Profit
  • Profit maximisation
  • Market structures
    • Perfect competition
    • Imperfect competition
    • Monopolistic competition
    • Oligopoly
    • Collusion
    • Monopoly
    • Contestable markets
  • Concentration ratios
  • Mergers
  • Different objectives of a firm
  • Behavioural analysis
  • Price discrimination
  • Government intervention to correct market failure
    • Tax
    • Subsidy
    • Pollution permits
  • Equity and inequality
  • Labour markets
    • Labour demand
    • Supply of labour
    • Market failure in labour markets
    • Monopsony
    • Trades Unions
    • National minimum wage
  • Government Failure

Unit 4 Macro economy

  • Economic growth
  • Economic development
  • Unemployment
  • Natural rate of unemployment
  • Circular flow of income
  • Aggregate Expenditure function
  • Accelerator effect
  • Money supply theory
  • Quantitative easing
  • Keynesian school of economic
  • Monetarist approach
  • Liquidity preference theory
  • Policies for developing economies
  • Macro-economic objectives of government
  • Conflict between objectives
  • Phillips curve
  • Government polices for macro-economy
  • Supply side polices

 

AS CIE Only