Learning objectives:

DSE Economics curriculum aims at developing students’ basic economic knowledge and skills, and an awareness of different values, it will help them to make rational economic choices for their own lives and decisions on various social issues. 

Economics helps students to understand the principles and forces that affect people in their everyday lives. The perspective it provides is important in giving students a more comprehensive understanding of contemporary issues facing Hong Kong and the mainland, as well as of the interdependence among regions and countries.

Curriculum:

Core part:

• Basic economic concepts
• Firms and production
• Market and price
• Competition and market structure
• Efficiency, equity and the role of government
• Measurement of economic and performance
• National income determination and price level
• Money and banking
• Macroeconomic problems and policies
• International trade and finance

Elective part: 

Elective I

• Monopoly pricing
• Anti-competitive behaviours and competition policy

Elective II

• Extension of trade theory
• Economic growth and development

Activities:

In the past few years, our students have participated actively in the activities and competitions, for example, Budget Online@M21, FinTech Challenge: 1st Runner up, etc. The school organized Festival Economics, an activity aimed at encouraging students to apply what they have learned in their daily lives.