AP - History and Social Sciences

AP Macroeconomics
Unit 1 Basic Economic Concepts
You’ll study the foundations of microeconomic thinking, including how to evaluate decisions based on constraints and trade-offs and make rational economic choices.
Unit 2 Supply and Demand
You’ll learn the basis for understanding how markets work with an introduction to the supply and demand model.
Unit 3 Production, Cost, and the Perfect Competition Model
You’ll explore the factors that drive the behavior of companies and learn about the perfect competition model.
Unit 4 Imperfect Competition
You’ll learn how imperfectly competitive markets work and how game theory comes into play in economic models.
Unit 5 Factor Markets
You’ll learn how concepts such as supply and demand and marginal decision-making apply in the context of factor markets.
Unit 6 Market Failure and the Role of Government
You’ll examine the conditions under which markets may fail and the effects of government intervention in markets.
