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ECONOMICS

ECONOMICS GENERAL COURSE

Unit 1: Personal economic and financial decisions

Personal earning, spending and saving decisions

  • the opportunities people have to obtain an income and/or wealth, including:
    • Influence of government on personal economic and financial decisions.

Economic research

select appropriate print and electronic media sources of economic information and data to inform personal economic and financial decisions.

Reasoning, interpretation and analysis

  • identify and organise relevant information within sources.

Communication

  • select and use appropriate formats when communicating economic understandings.

Unit 3 – Microeconomics

Market failure and government policies

  • policy options to correct for externalities including the use of taxes and subsidies.

Economic research

  • select appropriate print and electronic media sources of economic information and data on markets
  • apply appropriate methods of recording and organising microeconomic information, including spreadsheets, graphs and tables.

Reasoning, interpretation and analysis

  • identify and organise relevant information within sources.

Communication

  • select and use appropriate formats when communicating economic understandings.

ECONOMICS ATAR COURSE

Unit 1 – Microeconomics

Market failure and government policies

Externalities

  • policy options to correct for externalities including the use of taxes and subsidies.

Economic research

  • select appropriate print and electronic media sources of economic information and data on markets
  • apply appropriate methods of recording and organising microeconomic information, including spreadsheets, graphs and tables.

Reasoning, interpretation and analysis

  • identify and organise relevant information within sources.

Communication

  • select and use appropriate formats when communicating economic understandings.