Australia has experienced consistent economic growth for several decades. While this growth has generally led to increased living standards, it’s important to acknowledge that economic growth can also present potential costs.
b. Define the term ‘affluenza’ and explain how it can be considered a potential cost of economic growth.
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The Australian economy is constantly evolving. The main instrument for allocating resources is the market, but government also plays a significant role in resource allocation. In this unit students investigate the role of the market in allocating resources and examine the factors that affect the price and quantity traded for a range of goods and services. Students develop an understanding of the key measures of efficiency and how market systems might result in efficient outcomes. Students consider contemporary issues to explain the need for government intervention in markets and why markets might fail to maximise society’s living standards. As part of a balanced examination, students also consider unintended consequences of government intervention in the market. Students develop an understanding of the macroeconomy. They investigate the factors that affect the level of aggregate demand and aggregate supply in the economy and apply theories to explain how changes in these variables might affect achievement of domestic macroeconomic goals and living standards. Students assess the extent to which the Australian economy has achieved these macroeconomic goals during the past two years. Australia’s living standards depend, in part, on strong economic relationships with its major trading partners. Students investigate the importance of international economic relationships and the effect of these on Australian living standards. Students analyse how international transactions are recorded, and examine how economic factors might affect the value of the exchange rate, the terms of trade and Australia’s international competitiveness. Students also analyse how changes in the value of the exchange rate, the terms of trade and international competitiveness affect the domestic macroeconomic goals.
In this area of study students investigate Australia’s domestic macroeconomic goals supporting living standards, including strong and sustainable economic growth, full employment and low and stable inflation (price stability). Using the five-sector circular flow model of the macroeconomy, students consider the role of key economic agents and examine the factors that affect the business cycle. Students examine how each of the goals is measured and the potential consequences associated with the level of achievement of each goal. Students identify and analyse contemporary aggregate demand and aggregate supply factors that may have influenced the level of achievement of domestic macroeconomic goals over the past two years and consider how the level of achievement of the goals may affect living standards.
the potential costs of economic growth, including boom and bust economic cycles, congestion and pollution, environmental damage, potentially widening inequality and ‘affluenza’
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