A-Level Economics Checklist

AQA

Individuals, firms, markets and market failure (Microeconomics)

• 1 Economic methodology and the economic problem
• 2 Individual economic decision making
• 3 Price determination in a competitive market
• 4 Production, costs and revenue
• 5 Perfect competition, imperfectly competitive markets and monopoly
• 6 The labour market
• 7 The distribution of income and wealth: poverty and inequality
• 8 The market mechanism, market failure and government intervention in markets

The national and international economy (Macroeconomics)

• 9 The measurement of macroeconomic performance
• 10 How the macroeconomy works : the circular flow of income, AD/AS analysis, and related concepts
• 11 Economic performance
• 12 Financial markets and monetary policy
• 13 Fiscal policy and supply-side policies
• 14 The international economy

Edexcel

• Theme 1 Introduction to markets and market failure
  • 1.1 Nature of economics
  • 1.2 How markets work
  • 1.3 Market failure
  • 1.4 Government intervention
• Theme 2 The UK economy – performance and policies
  • 2.1 Measures of economic performance
  • 2.2 Aggregate demand
  • 2.3 Aggregate supply
  • 2.4 National income
  • 2.5 Economic growth
  • 2.6 Macroeconomic objectives and policy
• Theme 3 Business behaviour and the labour market
  • 3.1 Business growth
  • 3.2 Business objectives
  • 3.3 Revenues, costs and profit
  • 3.4 Market structures
  • 3.5 Labour market
  • 3.6 Government intervention
• Theme 4 A global perspective
  • 4.1 International economics
  • 4.2 Poverty and inequality
  • 4.3 Emerging and developing economies
  • 4.4 The financial sector
  • 4.5 Role of the state in the macroeconomy