Economics

Course summary

At King’s, the class sizes are small, allowing for individual attention and support for all of our Economists. The department is well resourced and has two experienced and passionate teachers who instill great enthusiasm towards their students about their subject. The department achieves strong results consistently. We have engineered many links with the local community and take part in several national competitions in order to bring greater realism into the lessons. The department organises many trips such as to New York, the financial district of London and to universities to hear speakers. We arrange for speakers to come into school to speak to our Economics students on a range of topics. What will I study during the course? The course followed at King’s is OCR A Level Economics H460. You will study three main components: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Themes in Economics. Within Microeconomics, you will focus on the economic agents, the workings of the free market, imperfections and market failures, government intervention, scarcity and choice, how competitive markets work, competition and market power, and the labour market. Within Macroeconomics, you will learn how the macroeconomics functions on both a domestic and global level by looking at economic policy objectives, indicators of macroeconomic performance, aggregate demand and aggregate supply, policy instruments, the global context, and the financial sector. Themes in Economics is a fully synoptic component and draws on both the Microeconomic and Macroeconomic themes.