| Australian economic trends and data are explored in over two hundred multiple choice, short answer and extended questions.
Topics Included:
- The role of the public sector
- Government intervention in the economy
- Economic activity in Australia
- Business cycles
- Aggregate demand and supply
- Economic objectives of price stability
- Full employment
- Sustainable economic growth and external stability
- Equity in the distribution of income and wealth
- Budgetary policy and its current application
- Tax systems
- Monetary policy- role of the Reserve Bank
- Targeting inflation and the use of monetary policy
- The nature of microeconomic policy
- Case studies- restructuring of the telecommunications and electricity industries
- Reform of the labour market
- Internal stability and the performance of the economy in the last decade
- External stability and the current account deficit and the net external debt
- The distribution of income and wealth
- Evaluating government management of the economy |
