Economics

Course summary

You will explore markets, demand and supply, growth, profits, cost, and how every aspect of economics influences our lives from the price of a product to employment to the policies we live by every day. Throughout the course, you will gain a broad understanding of the economics sector. Modules take on four themes and include: - Introduction to markets and market failure: nature of economics, how markets work, market failure and government intervention - The UK economy - performance and policies: economic performance, demand, supply, national income, economic growth and macroeconomic objectives and policies - Business Behaviour and the Labour Market: business growth, objectives, revenues, costs and profits, market structures - Economics in a global market: international economics, poverty and inequality, emerging and developing economies, the financial sector, role of the state of the economy and government intervention