Course topics.

Try this with Economics

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• Australia's global linkages, openness and trade patterns
• Absolute advantage, comparative advantage and opportunity-cost calculations
• Specialisation, gains from trade, PPF and demand/supply models
• Trade liberalisation and free-trade agreements
• Tariffs: price, quantities, revenue, surplus and deadweight loss
• Subsidies, quotas and arguments for protection
• Balance-of-payments structure and double-entry recording
• Current-account drivers and the saving-investment gap
• Terms of trade: calculation, causes, trends and effects
• Exchange rates and TWI: market determination, movements and effects
• Foreign direct and portfolio investment, flows, stocks and the international investment position
• Unit 3 data analysis, model construction and extended-response synthesis
• Business cycle phases, turning points, indicators and recent Australian performance
• Consumption function, MPC, MPS and multiplier calculations
• AE equilibrium, inventories and expenditure shocks
• AD, SRAS and LRAS equilibrium, demand and supply shocks and the business cycle
• Fiscal objectives, budget outcomes, automatic stabilisers, discretion and debt finance
• Monetary policy, the cash rate, tools and transmission channels
• Policy strengths, weaknesses, lags, policy mix and current Australian evidence
• Labour productivity, capital, technology, APF and long-run growth