Explain how the price mechanism allocates resources in a market economy.
How Markets and Prices Allocate Resources — AQA Past Paper Questions
2 questions on How Markets and Prices Allocate Resources (AQA specification 1.8.1) from the A-Level Economics papers, 2019–2022. Every question links to the official mark scheme at the page its answer begins on.
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Extract C (lines 14–15) states that ‘Rising prices will eventually also force builders in developing countries to explore alternatives to sand.’ Use the extracts and your knowledge of economics to assess the view that the increasing scarcity of sand is a problem best solved by market forces, rather than through government intervention.
1.1.4 Scarcity, Choice and Opportunity Cost · 1.8.1 The Price Mechanism
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