Edexcel A2 Economics Unit 3 Business Economics and Economic Efficiency

This book is intended as both a revision guide and student notes for Edexcel A2 Economics Unit 3: Business Economics and Economic Efficiency.

Topics covered: economies and diseconomies of scale, constraints on growth and anti-competitive practices, reasons for the survival of small firms, types of integration and mergers, competition policy in the UK and EU, theory of the firm, motives for firms, types of efficiency, market structures, collusion and game theory, contestable markets, price discrimination, pricing and non-pricing strategies, privatisation.

Although mainly aimed at the Edexcel A Level syllabus it may also have relevance for other students on other economics courses post-16 or degree level.