AQA A Level · 7136 · Paper 1: Markets and market failure
4.1.1.1 Positive and Normative Statements
Also AQA AS 7135: 3.1.1.1
Everything you need for questions on positive and normative statements, in the words examiners reward. An interactive seven-step lesson goes with it.
What's on this sheet
- Positive statements
- Normative statements
- Spotting the difference: traps
- Value judgements in decision-making
- A classic chain
- Classic question: can economics ever be value-free?
- Side 2: practice tasks, where the marks go, and exam-style questions
- Separate answer key
The lesson in seven steps
- Sort the statements
- The value-word hunt
- Rewrite the opinion as a testable claim
- Same evidence, different decisions
- Facts, values and economists
- Build the chain
- Exam practice
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