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Pearson Edexcel Level 3
GCE
Thursday 18 May 2023
Morning (Time: 2
hours) referenc
e
9EC0/01  
Economics
Advanced
A
PAPER 1: Markets and Business
Behaviour
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•• Use black ink or ball-point pen.
Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your
centre number and candidate number.
• There
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are three sections in this question paper. Answer all questions
from Section A and Section B. Answer one question from Section C.
• Answer the questions in the spaces
provided – there may be more space than
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•• The total mark for this paper is 100.
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, SECTION A
Answer ALL questions. Write your answers in the spaces provided.




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Some questions must be answered with a cross in a box . If you
change your mind about an answer, put a line through the box and
then mark your new answer with a cross .

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section. Use the data to support your answers

where relevant.
You may annotate and include diagrams in your answers.
1 In a major reform of its command economy, the Cuban government will allow
small private businesses to operate in most fields. Free market economists have
long called for the role of small business to be expanded to help jump-start the
economy and to create jobs.
(a) With reference to the information provided, explain one advantage of a
free market economy.




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, (b) Which one of the following economic thinkers supported the idea
of a command economy?
(1)
A Adam Smith
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B Friedrich Hayek
C John Maynard Keynes
D Karl Marx
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, 2 The production possibility frontier shows last year’s harvest for a UK farmer at point X.

Wheat




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(a) Calculate the opportunity cost of the decision by the farmer to harvest 6




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units of wheat this year at point Y (movement from point X to point Y).
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(b) Explain the impact on efficiency of producing at point W in the following year.
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