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Problem of Scarcity

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Relative concept as scarcity is in relation to demand

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Disadvantages of specialisation

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Boring (leads to poor quality), one delay causes domino effect, creates structural unemployment

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Functions of money

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Medium of exchange, measure/store of value, method for deferred payment

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Adam Smith argument

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‘Invisible hand’, free market works best as resources allocated to everyone’s advantage

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Fredrick Hayek argument

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State control of an economy leads to a loss of freedom

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Karl Marx Theory

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Workers always bound to rise against employers, command economy better

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Advantages of a command economy

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Less inequality, less resource wastage, government motivated by wellbeing , provides long-term planning

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Disadvantages of command economy

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Less motivation, less entrepreneurship, increased corruption

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Underlying assumptions of rational decisions

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Consumers maximise utility, firms maximise profits, government maximise social welfare

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Factors influencing PED

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availability of substitutes, addictive, time, necessity, % of income

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Significance of PED

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Determines effect of taxes/subsidies

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Significance of YED

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Businesses know how sales impacted by income

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Factors shifting the supply curve

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Costs of production, weather, price of other goods, technology, taxes/subsidies, producer cartels

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Factors influencing PES

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Spare capacity, ease of entry into market, short-term fixed factors of production, long-term variable, availability of substitutes, availability of factors of production

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Price mechanism

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Functions allocation resources/prices

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Rationing function

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Price increases - resources rationed to those who can afford it (example in house market, shops and 1973 oil embargo)

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Signalling function

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Price indicates where resources should be moved ( I.e house building if prices go up )

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Incentive function

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Money an incentive for people to work hard - also price incentive for when to buy/sell a good

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Consumer surplus

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Always above equilibrium, shows welfare gain for consumers

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Producer Surplus

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Always below equilibrium, shows economic gain for producers

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Ad Valorem Tax

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Tax increase in proportion to value of good (VAT)

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Specific tax

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Amount added to price of good (excise duties )

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Incidence of tax

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If PED elastic or PES inelastic, supplier pays majority of tax. If PED inelastic of PES elastic, consumer pays majority of tax

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Consumer behaviour

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Usually rational, can be influenced by habits

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Market failure
Causes a loss in social welfare
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Externality market failure
Leads to overproduction of negative goods
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Other types of market failure
Under-provision of public goods, information gaps
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Government control of externalities
Taxes (negative ) or subsidies ( positive ), trade pollution permits, regulation, provision of gold through tax revenue, provision of information
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Free-rider problem
Benefiting from a good without paying ( I,e unemployed with public good )
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Issues with information gaps
Leads to mis-allocation of resources due to producers taking advantage of asymmetric information
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Effects of Indirect taxation
Causes a fall in supply, increases government revenue - used on goods with negative externalities
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Disadvantages of indirect taxation
Creation of a black market, regressive, conflicts with growth, doesn’t work if demand for the good is very inelastic
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Advantages of a subsidy
Maximise welfare, increase equality
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Disadvantages of a subsidy
Opportunity cost, increases inefficient business, difficult to remove
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Advantages of a Tradable pollution Permit
Limits amount of pollution, incriminates companies exceeding
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Disadvantages of Tradable Pollution Permits
Expensive to monitor, raise costs for businesses
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Consequences of government intervention
Can worsen conditions, keep inefficient business running, lead to excess demand/supply, administration costs
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Impacts of regulation
Advantage - overcome market failure, Disadvantage - expensive, regulatory capture, firms pass costs onto consumers
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Advantages of a free market economy
Greater consumer choice, higher motivation for profits, competition creates productive efficiency, higher growth
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Disadvantages of a free market economy
Higher inequality, lack of regulation of demerit goods, monopolies, issues with externalities
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What is a mixed economy?
A combination of both command economy and free market, governments usually have been 40-60% of control, have 4 roles
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Roles of the government in a mixed economy
Create rules for the economy , supplement and modify the price system ( don’t want overconsumption of demerit goods), redistribute income, stabilise the economy
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Producer cartels
Firms come together to decrease supply to increase profits
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Advantages of government provision of public goods
Corrects market failure, brings equality, further benefits (I.e NHS creates healthy workforce)
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Disadvantages of government providing public goods
Expensive, high opportunity cost, government may be inefficient, corruption within the government may cause issues
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Renewable resource
A resource that can be replaced
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Non-renewable resource
Resource that can’t be replaced
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Opportunity cost
Where the use of one good results in a cost of not using another good
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Causes of economic decline
Natural disasters, natural resources running out, decrease of quantity/quality of labour
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How can the PPF curve change shape?
When there is an increase/decreased in the ability to only produce consumer or capital goods, and output of the other good isn’t effected
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Division of labour
When labour becomes specialise in a particular part of the industrialisation process
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Adam Smith’s belief over specialisation
Specialisation could increase growth as it would boost labour productivity
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Advantages of specialisation
Increased labour productivity, higher quality goods/services, time not wasted, cheaper training
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Advantages of specialisation for a country
Theory of comparative advantage, greater global output + lower prices
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Disadvantages of specialisation for a country
Over-dependence of one export, could run out of resources needed for the good, high interdependence of countries meaning global economy could crash due to war in one country
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Free market meaning
Resources allocated through the price mechanism
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Factors causing the demand curve to shift
Population, income, availability of related goods, advertising, seasonality, expectation of future
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Diminishing marginal utility
The satisfaction derived from the consumption of an additional unit of the gold will decrease as more of the good is consumed
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How could subsidies be ineffective?
If the good is highly inelastic , output won’t increase
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XED
Cross elasticity of demand
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What does it mean if XED is greater than 0?
The goods are substitutes
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What does it mean if XED is less than 0?
The goods are compliments
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Significance of XED
Firms know how price changes by other firms effect them
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Excess demand impact on firms
Encourages firms to raise prices
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Excess supply
Encourages firms to put goods on sale
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More inelastic demand
More consumer surplus
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More inelastic supply
More producer surplus
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Impacts of tax
Producer costs rise + supply decreases, increases price for consumers
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External costs/benefits
The impact on a third party due to consumption of a good ( difference between social cost/benefit and private cost/benefit)
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Characteristics of a public good
Non-rejectable, non-rival consumption, non p-excludable
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Why are public goods provide by the government?
Private producers won’t produce them as unsure if they will make profits due to them being non excludable
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Advantages of indirect taxation
Improves social welfare, increases government revenue which could be used to improve externality
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Advantages of a max/min price
Considers externalities, can reduce poverty
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Maximum price reasoning
Price suppliers can’t charge above, stops exploitation of consumers from monopolies
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Minimum price reasoning
Usually set on goods with negative externalities to discourage consumption
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Disadvantages of max/min price
Causes excess supply/demand, leads to creation of black markets, difficult to know where to set the price
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Advantages of government providing consumers information
Helps rational behaviour, reduces exploitation by firms, can be used to benefit other policies
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Disadvantages of government providing information to consumers
May not listen to government, can be expensive to get data

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