OCR A Level Economics Book 1 - Brossura

Smith, Peter

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1471829898 ISBN 13: 9781471829895

Casa editrice: Hodder Education, 2015

Riassunto

Exam Board: OCR Level: A-level Subject: Economics First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2016 This textbook has been produced in collaboration with OCR for use with the new 2015 OCR Economics specification, giving you up-to-date material that supports your teaching. This book will enable students to - Develop subject knowledge, with topic-by-topic insight and advice from Peter Smith, a professorial fellow in: Economics and editor of Economic Review - Demonstrate awareness of current issues in economics and build analytical and evaluative skills with new case studies - Build their quantitative skills with worked examples - Accurately explain key economic concepts and issues by learning the key terms throughout the text and in the end of section glossaries - Prepare for exams with practice questions and activities throughout the book Contents Introduction Section 1 - Microeconomics - Part 1 Scarcity and choice --Chapter 1: Introducing economics - Part 2 How competitive markets work --Chapter 2: The coordination problem --Chapter 3: The nature of demand --Chapter 4: The nature of supply --Chapter 5: Market equilibrium and the price system --Chapter 6: Prices and resource allocation -Part 3 Market failure and government intervention --Chapter 7: Market failure and externalities --Chapter 8: Other forms of market failure --Chapter 9: Government intervention and government failure Microeconomics key terms Microeconomics practice questions Section 2 - Macroeconomics - Part 4 Economic policy objectives and indicators of macroeconomic performance --Chapter 10: Macroeconomic performance: inflation --Chapter 11: Macroeconomic performance: employment and unemployment --Chapter 12: Measuring economic performance: economic growth - Part 5 Aggregate demand and aggregate supply --Chapter 13: Aggregate demand --Chapter 14: Aggregate supply and macroeconomic equilibrium - Part 6 The application of policy instruments --Chapter 15: Macroeconomic policy instruments - Part 7 The global context --Chapter 16: International trade --Chapter 17: The balance of payments and the exchange rate Macroeconomics key terms Macroeconomics practice questions Index

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Descrizione del libro

Develop students' confidence and understanding progressively through OCR AS and A Level Economics with new case studies to explore key topic areas, worked examples to build the quantitative skills required of the new curriculum and activities to put microeconomic and macroeconomic theory into practice

L'autore

Peter Smith is Professorial Fellow in Economics at the University of Southampton, editor of Economic Review and author of the second edition textbooks.

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• Editore: Hodder Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1471829898
• ISBN 13: 9781471829895
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256