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11–12Economics 11–12 Syllabus (2025)

Implementation from 2027
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Content

Year 11

Markets
Role of markets
  • Role of the Loading  in a Loading , including the signalling, incentive and rationing functions of relative prices

  • Contribution of self-interest and institutions to the functioning of markets, including the rule of law and enforcement of property rights and contracts

  • Relationship between Loading  and Loading 

Demand
  • Effective individual Loading  and market demand

  • Law of demand and the corresponding negatively sloping demand curve

  • Movements along the demand curve, specifically expansions and contractions of demand for a good or service due to a change in price

  • Movements (shifts) of the demand curve, including increases and decreases in demand for a good or service due to changes in non-price factors involving income, population, tastes, prices of substitutes and complements, and expected future prices

  • Construct and interpret demand schedules and graphs

Supply
  • Effective individual and market Loading 

  • Law of supply and corresponding positively sloping supply curve

  • Movements along the supply curve, specifically expansions and contractions of supply for a good or service due to a change in price

  • Movements (shifts) of the supply curve, including increases and decreases of supply for a good or service due to changes in non-price factors involving the cost of factors of production, expected future prices, number of suppliers, and technology

  • Construct and interpret supply schedules and graphs

Market equilibrium
  • Effects of changes in demand and supply on equilibrium market price and equilibrium quantity

  • Construct and interpret demand and supply graphs that demonstrate changes to market equilibrium

  • Contribution of market equilibrium and market outcomes to efficiency

Price elasticity of demand
  • Degrees of Loading , including perfectly elastic, relatively elastic, unitary elastic, relatively inelastic and perfectly inelastic

  • Interpret demand graphs for price elasticity of demand

  • Calculate price elasticity of demand using the percentage method formula Percentage change in quantity demandedPercentage change in price
  • Factors affecting price elasticity of demand, including degree of necessity, closeness and number of available substitutes, proportion of income spent on an item, time horizon and addictiveness of the item

  • Significance of price elasticity of demand for businesses in terms of pricing, product differentiation and output

Price elasticity of supply
  • Degrees of Loading , including perfectly elastic, relatively elastic, unitary elastic, relatively inelastic and perfectly inelastic

  • Interpret supply graphs for price elasticity of supply

  • Factors affecting price elasticity of supply, including time horizon, excess capacity, durability of goods and factor mobility

  • Significance of price elasticity of supply for businesses

Market structures and competition for sellers
  • Role of competition in markets and degrees of competition

  • Characteristics of Loading , Loading , Loading  and Loading , including number of businesses, types of goods and services, barriers to entry and pricing power

  • Economic implications of increases in the level of Loading  on the price, quantity and quality of goods and services, and the innovation and profit of businesses

  • Effects of technological innovation and the digital economy on market power, including Loading  and Loading  associated with digital platforms

Nature and types of market failure
  • Limitations of the price mechanism in achieving economic and social objectives

  • Challenges faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses in accessing Loading  and markets

  • Features of positive Loading  and negative externalities from consumption and production in relation to Loading , including marginal Loading  and Loading , marginal Loading  and Loading , property rights, Loading , Loading  and Loading 

  • Interpret demand and supply graphs that demonstrate negative externalities from production and positive externalities from consumption

  • Features of Loading  in relation to Loading , including non-excludability, non-rivalry, and the free rider problem

  • Features of market power abuse in relation to market failure, including predatory pricing and collusion

  • Features of Loading  in relation to market failure, including lack of disclosure and Loading 

  • Features of income and wealth inequality in relation to market failure, including social exclusion

Government intervention in market failures
  • Rationale for government intervention to address market failure

  • Forms and features of government policy interventions to correct market failure, including taxes, Loading , direct provision of goods, regulations, price controls (Loading  and Loading ), quantity controls (Loading ) and Loading 

  • Interpret demand and supply graphs that demonstrate the effects of taxes and price controls

  • Limitations of government intervention into market failure

  • Loading , including unintended consequences of policy interventions and Loading 

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