Economics

Course summary

Economics is a social science which studies the behaviour of societies as they attempt to solve the fundamental economic problem of scarcity, how do they best allocate their limited resources to an apparently endless list of competing wants and needs. The A Level Economics course provides students with a toolkit to analyse this problem and help them view the world with a critical eye. They will be then asked to apply this toolkit to a range of economic policy decisions and evaluate competing solutions. Students will get the opportunity to challenge one another’s policies via healthy classroom discussion. It is important to realise that the subject is taught in the context of current events taking place at the time, and therefore economists at the RGS are expected to be curious, keeping up-to-date with these events and reading around economic issues in more detail throughout the course.