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ECNM08004: Economic Principles 
Final Examination Guide and Notes 2026 
 
Part 01: Revision Notes 
Part 02: Sample Final Examination Paper 
Part 03: Suggested Solutions to Final Exam Paper 
Part 04: Proven Exam Strategies and Tips 
 
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University of Edinburgh - ECNM08004: Economic Principles

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ACADEMIC YEAR 2025 - 2026

University	University of Edinburgh
Course Code	ECNM08004
Course Name	Economic Principles
SCQF Credits	20
Notes Title	Final Examination Guide and Notes
Format	PDF
Page Length	122

Struggling to keep up with Economic Principles (ECNM08004) at the University of Edinburgh? This clear, concise set of notes helps you revise for the final examination by highlighting the topics that are most likely to be tested. You get revision notes, exam-style papers with step-by-step solutions, plus practical guidance on timing, common errors, and how to present answers clearly. Use it to focus on what matters, practise under real exam conditions, and turn difficult areas into marks so you go into the final with confidence.

The course is intended to provide a broad introduction to the principles of microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis.

Course content varies from year to year, but would typically address the microeconomic analysis of the behaviour of individuals and firms, the operation of markets, and government intervention in markets through taxes and regulation; and the macroeconomic analysis of the behaviour of economy-wide measures such as output, unemployment, money, interest rates, and inflation.

The course is taught through a programme of lectures and tutorials. The course relies primarily on words, diagrams and numerical illustrations. The use of formal mathematics is limited and basic. The recommended textbook is: The recommended textbook is: Mankiw and Taylor 'Economics', latest edition.

✔ On completion of this course, the student will be able to:

A knowledge and understanding of microeconomics and macroeconomic principles, and of economic issues through application of these principles.
Research and investigative skills such as problem framing and solving and the ability to assemble and evaluate complex evidence and arguments.
Communication skills in order to critique, create and communicate understanding and to collaborate with and relate to others.
Personal effectiveness through task-management, time-management, teamwork and group interaction, dealing with uncertainty and adapting to new situations, personal and intellectual autonomy through independent learning.
Practical/technical skills such as, modelling skills (abstraction, logic, succinctness), qualitative and quantitative analysis and general IT literacy.

COURSE CODE	COURSE NAME
ACCN08007	Accountancy 1A
ACCN08008	Accountancy 1B
ACCN08009	Accountancy 2A
ACCN08012	Accounting for Business 1
BUST08003	Principles of Finance
BUST08004	Marketing
BUST08005	Business Economics
BUST08018	Applications of Finance
BUST08029	Introduction to Financial Markets
BUST08030	Introduction to Corporate Finance
BUST08033	Introduction to Data Analysis
BUST10012	Corporate Finance
BUST10023	Futures and Options
BUST10032	Investment and Securities Markets
ECNM08004	Economic Principles
ECNM08016	Statistical Methods for Economics
ECNM10052	Essentials of Econometrics
ECNM10056	Applications of Econometrics
ECNM10069	Topics in Macroeconomics
ECNM10070	Topics in Microeconomics
MATH08051	Statistics
PPLS08001	Research Methods and Statistics

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