ECONOMICS
Unit 3: AUSTRALIA'S ECONOMIC PROSPERITY
Area of Study 1: An introduction to microeconomics: the market system, resource allocation and government intervention
Outcome 1
- On completion of this unit the student should be able to explain how markets operate to allocate resources, and discuss the effect of government intervention on market outcomes.
Key knowledge
- reasons for market failure: public goods, externalities, asymmetric information and common access resources.
Key skills
- define key economic concepts and terms and use them appropriately
- explain the effect of government intervention in markets