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ALEVEL Economics past paper

OXFORD CAMBRIDGE AND RSA EXAMINATIONS

Advanced Subsidiary GCE

ECONOMICS 2881

THE MARKET SYSTEM

Friday 9 JUNE 2006 Afternoon 1 hour

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Making choices

Economists have to deal with many aspects of the ‘economic problem’. This

problem affects the ways in which individuals, firms and governments behave.

Most of the decisions that are taken require choices to be made. Economists use a

variety of techniques to analyse why choices have to be made, as well as the

causes and consequences of these choices. These techniques include:

• diagrams such as a Production Possibility Curve (PPC);

• statistical data such as demand schedules;

• investigations, for example, into the actual behaviour of firms in different

market structures.

Taken together, these