AQA Unit 1 (Micro) Course Companion

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1. Scarcity and Choice
2. Economic Resources
3. Factor Rewards
4. The Production Possibility Frontier
5. Specialisation and Trade
6. Positive and Normative Statements
7. Markets: Understanding Demand
8. Markets: Understanding Supply
9. Markets: Finding an Equilibrium Price
10. Price Elasticity of Demand
11. Price Elasticity of Supply
12. Income Elasticity of Demand
13. Cross Price Elasticity of Demand
14. The Functions of the Price Mechanism
15. Price Volatility in Markets
16. Inter-relationships between Markets
17. Consumer Surplus
18. Producer Surplus
19. Markets in Action: The Market for Oil
20. Markets in Action: The Market for Copper
21. Markets in Action: The Market for Coffee
22. Markets in Action: The UK Housing Market
23. Markets in Action: The Labour Market
24. Markets in Action: Economics of Health Care
25. Background to Supply: Production and Costs
26. Economies and Diseconomies of Scale
27. Productivity
28. Economic Efficiency
29. Introduction to Causes of Market Failure
30. Competition and Monopoly in Markets
31. Negative Externalities
32. Positive Externalities
33. Public Goods and Private Goods
34. Merit Goods and Services
35. Demerit goods
36. Factor Immobility
37. Imperfect Information
38. Poverty and Inequality in Resource Allocation
39. Government Intervention in the Market
40. Indirect Taxation
41. Producer Subsidies
42. Maximum Prices
43. Minimum Prices
44. Buffer Stock Schemes
45. Government Failure
46. Exam Technique

Q&A: What do we need to know about output gaps? [20 May 2012]
Revision notes on unemployment [20 May 2012]
Final Speaker Line Up for the Economics Teacher Conference 2012 [15 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: 10 Key Revision Topics for EdExcel [7 May 2012]
Exam Technique for Economics - Weesteps to Evaluation [5 May 2012]
Ukraine Hotel ‘Bandits’? [12 Apr 2012]
Football Clubs to Pay for Negative Externalities [11 Apr 2012]
Twitter - Help with Economics Revision [8 Apr 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Inflation and the Business Environment [6 Apr 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: How the Economic Cycle affects Businesses [6 Apr 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Highest and Lowest Paid Jobs in the UK [26 Feb 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: The Economics of Solar Subsidies [18 Jan 2012]
AS and A2 Economics Revision Workshops in Spring 2012 (update) [16 Jan 2012]
Essential Economics 2012 - the Economics Booster CPD Course (20 June 2012) [13 Jan 2012]
Revision Presentation: Economics Evaluation Skills [10 Jan 2012]
Exam Advice: 10 Ideas for a Better Economics Paper [10 Jan 2012]
AS and A2 Economics - 10 Ways to Improve Evaluation [4 Jan 2012]
AQA AS ECON1 - Specification Resource Map [15 Sep 2011]
UK Macro: Risks of a Double Dip Recession [12 Sep 2011]
Beyond the Bike - Video of the First Two Weeks [8 Aug 2011]
Economics 1 Manchester United 0 [20 Jul 2011]
Tech & Pop Culture in Teaching Economics [17 Jul 2011]
Beyond the Bike - Stuart’s Epic Economic Cycle [17 Jul 2011]
7 Reasons why Teachers should Blog [7 Jul 2011]
Nine Great Reasons for Economics & Business Teachers to use Twitter [28 Jun 2011]
tutor2u June 2011 Economics Teacher Conference [18 Jun 2011]
Connecting to Digital Natives (and some great ads!) [17 Jun 2011]
RES Essay Competition 2011 - Shortlisted Essays [13 Jun 2011]
Economics Teachers on Twitter [6 Jun 2011]
AS Macro: Preparing for Unit 2 (May 2011) [25 May 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Supply-Side Policies [25 May 2011]
AQA Macro: Remember to revise inflation [25 May 2011]
AQA A2 Economics - European Context [23 May 2011]
AS Micro: Last-minute Unit 1 Exam Tips! [11 May 2011]
Important: Yet More Tinkering from AQA Economics [11 May 2011]
Economics Resources & CPD - Your Suggestions Welcome [9 May 2011]
Interest Rates Held at 0.5% once again [5 May 2011]
AS Macro: Extended House Price Deflation? [5 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Innovation in Markets [4 May 2011]
What America makes [4 May 2011]
AQA ECON2 - Rapid Revision Q&A Now Available [3 May 2011]
UK Economy Revision Briefing May 2011 [1 May 2011]
AS Micro: Revision on Government Failure [1 May 2011]
Video Clips on the Chinese Economy [1 May 2011]
A2 Micro Revision - Key Terms and Glossary [30 Apr 2011]
EU Enlargement - Evaluating the Impact [30 Apr 2011]
A2 Micro: EU Aviation - State Aid and State Ownership [28 Apr 2011]
AS Micro: Mock Exam Question on Sugar Prices [28 Apr 2011]
Economics Recommended Reading - Summer 2011 [26 Apr 2011]
Wiki Revision: A to Z on Monopoly [23 Apr 2011]
AS Macro: Conflicts between Objectives [23 Apr 2011]
Royal Economic Society Essay Competition [23 Apr 2011]
Exam Advice: Using Evidence and Examples [18 Apr 2011]
Exam Advice: Multiple Causation [17 Apr 2011]
UK Economy at a Glance April 2011 [17 Apr 2011]
Online Economics Revision Help [13 Apr 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Double-Dip Recession [8 Apr 2011]
Prospects for the UK Economy - Madrid Presentation [5 Apr 2011]
Tutor2u Visits Madrid! [4 Apr 2011]
AS Macro Revision - Key Term Revision Bank [1 Apr 2011]
AS Micro Revision - Key Term Revision Bank [1 Apr 2011]
Exam Advice: Putting Things in Context [1 Apr 2011]
Exam Advice: Maintaining Balance in your Answers [31 Mar 2011]
Timetric: Mortgage Lending and Mortgage Rates [14 Mar 2011]
Resources from the Business/Economics ICT event [5 Mar 2011]
Using Google Docs for Student Collaboration [28 Feb 2011]
Using Twitter - The Role of Hash Tags [15 Feb 2011]
Teacher Enrichment - Developing Your Own PLN [14 Feb 2011]
David Smith on Shifting Sands in the Global Economy [8 Feb 2011]
Tuesday Talks! African development [8 Feb 2011]
The 25 Countries Whose Governments Could Get Crushed By Food Price Inflation [5 Feb 2011]
More inequality - and it’s a good thing! [2 Feb 2011]
Tracking Commodity Prices - Free Chart Download [26 Jan 2011]
Choppy Times - An Economic Cycle Update and Resource Download [25 Jan 2011]
An Aggregate Supply puzzle [24 Jan 2011]
Economics Q&A: Tragedy of the Commons and Market Failure [18 Jan 2011]
Roger Harrabin - Environmental Economics Videos [17 Jan 2011]
Economics Q&A: Will the rise in VAT harm the UK’s economic performance? [17 Jan 2011]
Environmental Economics: Five Fresh Links [13 Jan 2011]
AQA exam marking - some changes [11 Jan 2011]
Economics Q&A: What economic factors affect the demand for new cars? [9 Jan 2011]
Diagram Canvas for A2 Micro [7 Jan 2011]
AS Economics Diagram Canvas [7 Jan 2011]
A2 Economics Diagram Checklist [7 Jan 2011]
Revision Economics Q&As for the June 2011 exams [6 Jan 2011]
Firefox overtakes IE in the EU Browser Market [5 Jan 2011]
Economics Q&A: What are some of the benefits and drawbacks of a period of rising world food prices [4 Jan 2011]
Revision: Consequences of Unemployment [1 Jan 2011]
Growing a presence on Facebook [23 Dec 2010]
UK Economy in Focus [22 Dec 2010]
A Christmas Reading List in Economics for 2010 [9 Dec 2010]
A selection of economics revision presentations [1 Dec 2010]
The 25 Mark Questions in AQA AS Macro [30 Nov 2010]
Changes to AQA Economics Spec and other Animals [28 Nov 2010]
Keeping the Plates Spinning - the Success of the Goodwood Brand [11 Nov 2010]
Revision Presentation on Causes and Effects of Inflation [4 Nov 2010]
Extend and Enrich with EconoMax [29 Oct 2010]
Revision Presentation on Measuring Inflation [26 Oct 2010]
Revision Presentation on Unemployment in the UK [26 Oct 2010]
Should examiners read more widely? [25 Oct 2010]

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