Skip to content

CAIE A-Level Economics

A-Level · Cambridge International (CAIE)Economics2009 cards

Picked for the same course from what people use most, and all of it can be read without an account.

Everything for Economics

Looking for help with Economics?

Cookie Tutoring, our own tutoring service, may have tutors for Economics. Lessons are live and one to one, and the first 15 minutes with any tutor is free.

Find a tutor

Flashcards for Cambridge International AS & A Level Economics (9708), split into AS Level and A Level and then by the syllabus's numbered topics (1 to 11), with the largest topics divided by sub-number. Definitions, formulae with worked examples, diagrams described in words, theories, policies and evaluation points, following the syllabus for exams in 2027. Suspend the A Level subdeck if you sit AS only.

Adding it gives you your own copy, with every subdeck below. Each card then comes back just before you would forget it, and every one you get right or wrong counts towards your mastery of its topic. You can delete or suspend the parts you are not studying once it is yours.

What is inside (65 subdecks)

  • A Level1214 cards
    • 7 The price system and the microeconomy457 cards
      • 7.1 Utility23 cards
      • 7.2 Indifference curves and budget lines36 cards
      • 7.3 Efficiency and market failure25 cards
      • 7.4 Private costs and benefits, externalities and social costs and benefits48 cards
      • 7.5 Types of cost, revenue and profit, short-run and long-run production104 cards
      • 7.6 Different market structures117 cards
      • 7.7 Growth and survival of firms51 cards
      • 7.8 Differing objectives and policies of firms53 cards
    • 8 Government microeconomic intervention184 cards
      • 8.1 Government policies to achieve efficient resource allocation and correct market failure79 cards
      • 8.2 Equity and redistribution of income and wealth39 cards
      • 8.3 Labour market forces and government intervention66 cards
    • 9 The macroeconomy249 cards
      • 9.1 The circular flow of income82 cards
      • 9.2 Economic growth and sustainability52 cards
      • 9.3 Employment and unemployment38 cards
      • 9.4 Money and banking77 cards
    • 10 Government macroeconomic intervention81 cards
      • 10.1 Government macroeconomic policy objectives12 cards
      • 10.2 Links between macroeconomic problems and their interrelatedness29 cards
      • 10.3 Effectiveness of policy options to meet all macroeconomic objectives40 cards
    • 11 International economic issues243 cards
      • 11.1 Policies to correct disequilibrium in the balance of payments31 cards
      • 11.2 Exchange rates43 cards
      • 11.3 Economic development41 cards
      • 11.4 Characteristics of countries at different levels of development50 cards
      • 11.5 Relationship between countries at different levels of development78 cards
  • AS Level795 cards
    • 1 Basic economic ideas and resource allocation128 cards
      • 1.1 Scarcity, choice and opportunity cost18 cards
      • 1.2 Economic methodology17 cards
      • 1.3 Factors of production30 cards
      • 1.4 Resource allocation in different economic systems20 cards
      • 1.5 Production possibility curves18 cards
      • 1.6 Classification of goods and services25 cards
    • 2 The price system and the microeconomy169 cards
      • 2.1 Demand and supply curves38 cards
      • 2.2 Price, income and cross elasticity of demand57 cards
      • 2.3 Price elasticity of supply22 cards
      • 2.4 The interaction of demand and supply33 cards
      • 2.5 Consumer and producer surplus19 cards
    • 3 Government microeconomic intervention102 cards
      • 3.1 Reasons for government intervention in markets14 cards
      • 3.2 Methods and effects of government intervention in markets53 cards
      • 3.3 Addressing income and wealth inequality35 cards
    • 4 The macroeconomy168 cards
      • 4.1 National income statistics22 cards
      • 4.2 Introduction to the circular flow of income21 cards
      • 4.3 Aggregate demand and aggregate supply analysis44 cards
      • 4.4 Economic growth19 cards
      • 4.5 Unemployment32 cards
      • 4.6 Price stability30 cards
    • 5 Government macroeconomic intervention95 cards
      • 5.1 Government macroeconomic policy objectives17 cards
      • 5.2 Fiscal policy44 cards
      • 5.3 Monetary policy16 cards
      • 5.4 Supply-side policy18 cards
    • 6 International economic issues133 cards
      • 6.1 The reasons for international trade28 cards
      • 6.2 Protectionism30 cards
      • 6.3 Current account of the balance of payments32 cards
      • 6.4 Exchange rates27 cards
      • 6.5 Policies to correct imbalances in the current account16 cards

Some of its cards

  • An increase in the actual output of an economy over time
    Actual growth
  • A curve showing that tax revenue rises with the tax rate up to a point, then falls as higher rates discourage work and encourage avoidance
    Laffer curve
  • Economic development
    An improvement in living standards, including income, health, education and freedom
  • A curve showing an inverse relationship between the rate of inflation and the rate of unemployment
    Phillips curve
  • Multiplier
    The number of times an initial injection into the circular flow raises national income
  • An economy where resources are allocated by the price mechanism through the decisions of consumers and firms
    Market economy
  • Policies that raise the productive capacity of the economy and shift LRAS right
    Supply-side policy
  • Profit maximisation
    The objective of producing where MC equals MR to make the greatest possible profit
  • The cost paid by the individual or firm that produces or consumes a good
    Private cost
  • The satisfaction a consumer gains from consuming a good or service
    Utility

And 1999 more once you add the deck.