Economics Revision Notes List
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This page lists all the topics for GCSE and AS Economics (A2 Economics still to come). Follow the links to the relevant revision note. If the link is red the page hasn't been written yet - you are more than welcome to write up your own notes on this topic.
GCSE
The two main exam boards for GCSE Economics are AQA and OCR. Their course structures (though not the content) varies so widely that I have split them up.
AQA
Business economics
- Objectives of business
- Public and private sector ownership
- Growth of business
- Business performance
- Business competition
Market failure
- Monopoly
- Externalities
- Regional problems
- Taxes and subsidies
- Price controls
- Competition policy
- Regulation
Macroeconomics
- Macroeconomic indicators
- GDP and national income
- The money supply
- Circular flow of income
- The economic cycle
- Exchange rates
- Objectives of macroeconomic policy
- Effects of macroeconomic policy
- Interest rates
- Government income and expenditure
- Trade policy
- The European Union
OCR
The economic problem
The competitive market
- Competitive markets
- The demand curve
- The supply curve
- Price elasticity
- Determination of price in competitive markets
- Costs - the information on this page is too detailed for GCSE.
- Revenue - the information on this page is too detailed for GCSE.
- Profits
- Productivity
- Rewards for labour
The economic role of government
- The role of the government in the UK economy
- Government income and expenditure
- Policy objectives
- Economic growth
- Unemployment
- Inflation
- Conflicts between objectives
- Market failure
International economics
A level
Microeconomics
- The Economic Problem (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
- Factors of production (AQA, OCR)
- Positive and normative economics (AQA)
- Specialisation and Trade (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
- Producer and consumer surplus (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
- Demand theory (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
- Supply theory (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
- Supply and Demand Equilibrium (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
- Elasticity of demand (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
- Elasticity of supply (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
- The Price Mechanism (AQA, Edex)
- Indirect Taxes and Subsidies (Edex)
- The labour market (Edex)
- Economies of scale (AQA)
- Allocative efficiency (OCR)
Market failure
- Market failure (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
- Externalities (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
- Public, merit and demerit goods (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
- Imperfect competition (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
- Immobility of labour (Edex, OCR)
- Asymmetric Information (OCR)
- Commodity markets (Edex)
- Agricultural markets (AQA, Edex)
- Property rights (Edex)
- Regulation and state provision (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
- Taxes and subsidies (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
- Price controls (AQA, Edex, WJEC)
- Pollution Permits (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
- Government failure (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
Macroeconomics
- The economic cycle (AQA)
- Indicators (AQA, Edex, OCR)
- Circular flow of income (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
- Aggregate demand (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
- Aggregate supply (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
- Multiplier (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
- Macroeconomic objectives (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
- Inflation (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
- Unemployment (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
- Balance of payments (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
- Growth (AQA, Edex, OCR)
- Conflicts between objectives (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
- Fiscal Policy (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
- Monetary Policy (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
- Supply-side Policy (AQA, Edex, OCR, WJEC)
- Exchange Rate Policy (WJEC)
- Protectionism (OCR)
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