AL-Economics
AL-Economics
Subject Qualification
Economics A Level
Bank of England
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Mansion House
The Gherkin
The Crystal
The London Stock Exchange
Tasks to Complete
Define a free (a free good is one without a market-determined price) and an economic
good. Refer to scarce goods, infinite wants, needing to make a choice and the economic
problem. Also, that free goods have no opportunity cost (define the term) but that
economic goods do have an opportunity cost.
You should aim to make a clear distinction between the free and the market priced good.
This should enable you to include the following key terms:
▫ Scarcity
▫ Choice
▫ Allocation of resources
▫ Opportunity Cost
▫ How economic systems make their choices
▫ Private and Social costs
Explain what the production possibility curve shows, using a diagram to illustrate your
answer. Refer to the assumptions that are made when drawing the curve. Illustrate points
inside the curve means unemployed resources or inefficient production. Explain a shift
occurs due to economic growth
Define economic growth and explain how it can happen, e.g. increase in the quantity of
resources, increase in the quality of resources or technological progress. Giving examples
of each