Week 1 of the third term in SS1 economics typically covers the following topics:
1. Introduction to Economics: Economics is the study of how individuals, businesses, and governments make choices about how to allocate resources to satisfy their needs and wants.
2. Basic Economic Concepts: This includes understanding the concepts of scarcity, choice, opportunity cost, and the production possibilities curve.
3. Economic Systems: Different types of economic systems such as traditional, command, market, and mixed economies are discussed, along with their advantages and disadvantages.
4. Demand and Supply: The law of demand and supply, factors affecting demand and supply, and how equilibrium price and quantity are determined in a market are important concepts covered in this topic.
5. Elasticity: Understanding price elasticity of demand and supply, income elasticity, and cross-price elasticity are essential for analyzing how changes in prices and incomes affect consumer behavior and market outcomes.
6. Market Structures: Different types of market structures such as perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly, and monopolistic competition are introduced, along with their characteristics and implications for market outcomes.
7. Role of Government in the Economy: The functions of government in regulating markets, providing public goods, redistributing income, and stabilizing the economy are discussed in this topic.
8. International Trade: The benefits of international trade, trade barriers, exchange rates, and balance of payments are important concepts covered in this topic.
It is important to study these topics in detail, understand the key concepts, and practice solving problems and analyzing real-world examples to deepen your understanding of economics in SS1.