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  2. Law of demand - Wikipedia

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    The law of demand applies to a variety of organisational and business situations. Price determination, government policy formation etc are examples. [6] Together with the law of supply, the law of demand provides to us the equilibrium price and quantity. Moreover, the law of demand and supply explains why goods are priced at the level that they ...

  3. Giffen good - Wikipedia

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    In microeconomics and consumer theory, a Giffen good is a product that people consume more of as the price rises and vice versa, violating the law of demand. For ordinary goods , as the price of the good rises, the substitution effect makes consumers purchase less of it, and more of substitute goods ; the income effect can either reinforce or ...

  4. List of unsolved problems in economics - Wikipedia

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    Transformation problem: The transformation problem is the problem specific to Marxist economics, and not to economics in general, of finding a general rule by which to transform the values of commodities based on socially necessary labour time into the competitive prices of the marketplace. The essential difficulty is how to reconcile profit in ...

  5. Demand - Wikipedia

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    To compute the inverse demand equation, simply solve for P from the demand equation. [12] For example, if the demand equation is Q = 240 - 2P then the inverse demand equation would be P = 120 - .5Q, the right side of which is the inverse demand function. [13] The inverse demand function is useful in deriving the total and marginal revenue ...

  6. Supply and demand - Wikipedia

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    If the demand decreases, then the opposite happens: a shift of the curve to the left. If the demand starts at D 2, and decreases to D 1, the equilibrium price will decrease, and the equilibrium quantity will also decrease. The quantity supplied at each price is the same as before the demand shift, reflecting the fact that the supply curve has ...

  7. Ramsey problem - Wikipedia

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    The Ramsey problem, or Ramsey pricing, or Ramsey–Boiteux pricing, is a second-best policy problem concerning what prices a public monopoly should charge for the various products it sells in order to maximize social welfare (the sum of producer and consumer surplus) while earning enough revenue to cover its fixed costs.

  8. The Market for Lemons - Wikipedia

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    The federal "lemon law" also provides that the warrantor may be obligated to pay the attorney fees of the party prevailing in a lemon law suit, as do most state lemon laws. If a car has to be repaired for the same defect four or more times and the problem is still occurring, the car may be deemed to be a "lemon".

  9. Walras's law - Wikipedia

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    Walras's law is a consequence of finite budgets. If a consumer spends more on good A then they must spend and therefore demand less of good B, reducing B's price. The sum of the values of excess demands across all markets must equal zero, whether or not the economy is in a general equilibrium.