DEMAND AND SUPPLY - NOTES FOR CHAPTERS 3 AND 4
PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS - JA
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  Study to find
           The role of prices in a market economy
            What does DEMAND have to do with the price effect of a product
             Why do people by more of a product at a lower price that they do at a higher price?
             The relationship between consumer demands and market demands?
             The definition of price elasticity of demand and how is it determined?
             The difference between the price effect and a change in demand

    LECTURE OUTLINE
          Role and influence of the consumer in a market economy
          Demand and the price effect
          The difference between a demand table and a demand curve
          Diminishing Personal Value
          Diminishing Marginal Utility
          Substitute Goods
           Market Demand
          Effect of Market Demand on Price Elasticity of Demand for goods
                Availability of Substitutes
                Percentage of Budget
                Time
                 Elastic v inelastic
          Relationship between the Price Effect and Change in Demand
                 What it looks like on a curve (p. 41 of the text)
          What does a change in income have to do with increase or decrease in demand?
          Price Availability of Substitutes
          Prices of Complementary Goods
          Changes in Weather of Season
          Changes in Number of Buyers
          Changes in Styles, Tastes, and Habits
          Consumer Expectations

                            
COMPLETE THE STUDY GUIDE FOR CHAPTER 3
                     PREPARE FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF OUR CONSULTANT


                                        
SUPPLY - CHAPTER 4 -JA
  
Study to find
          Definition of Supply
          How supply illustrates the price effect
          What the relationship of Opportunity Cose has to do with Supply of Goods & Services
          Why producers want to sell more of something at higher prices and less at lower ones
          What the relationship between Market Supply and Supplies of Individual sellers is
          What is the price elasticity of supply, and how is it determined?
          What is the difference between the price effect and a change in supply

 
LECTURE NOTES

          Supply and the Price Effect
          The Supply Table and the Supply Curve
          Meaning of Market Supply
          Price Elasticity of Supply
          Elastic v. Inelastic Supply
           Shifts in Supply
          Relationship between the Price Effect and a Change in Supply
          Changes in the marginal cost of production
          Changes in the number of producers
          Changes in expectations

                               
COMPLETE THE STUDY GUIDE FOR CHAPTER 4
                       PREPARE FOR MR. CIMPERMAN ON  Wednesdays.
                                              TEST #2 GIVEN ON OCT. 3
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