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  2. Economic graph - Wikipedia

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    The graph depicts an increase (that is, right-shift) in demand from D 1 to D 2 along with the consequent increase in price and quantity required to reach a new equilibrium point on the supply curve (S). A common and specific example is the supply-and-demand graph shown at right. This graph shows supply and demand as opposing curves, and the ...

  3. 2007–2008 world food price crisis - Wikipedia

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    But there was a temporary drop in food production growth: [19] [20] for example, wheat production during 2006 and 2007 was 4% lower than that in 2004 and 2005. [citation needed] World population has grown from 1.6 billion in 1900 to over 7.5 billion today. [21] [22]

  4. Supply and demand - Wikipedia

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    In his 1870 essay "On the Graphical Representation of Supply and Demand", Fleeming Jenkin in the course of "introduc[ing] the diagrammatic method into the English economic literature" published the first drawing of supply and demand curves in English, [22] including comparative statics from a shift of supply or demand and application to the ...

  5. Demand curve - Wikipedia

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    The elasticity of demand indicates how sensitive the demand for a good is to a price change. If the elasticity's absolute value is between zero and 1, demand is said to be inelastic; if it equals 1, demand is "unitary elastic"; if it is greater than 1, demand is elastic. A small value--- inelastic demand--- implies that changes in price have ...

  6. Agricultural policy of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The agricultural policy of the United States is composed primarily of the periodically renewed federal U.S. farm bills.The Farm Bills have a rich history which initially sought to provide income and price support to US farmers and prevent them from adverse global as well as local supply and demand shocks.

  7. Plot (graphics) - Wikipedia

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    Simple graph: Supply and demand curves, simple graphs used in economics to relate supply and demand to price. The graphs can be used together to determine the economic equilibrium (essentially, to solve an equation). Simple graph used for reading values: the bell-shaped normal or Gaussian probability distribution, from which, for example, the ...

  8. Supply (economics) - Wikipedia

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    A supply schedule is a table which shows how much one or more firms will be willing to supply at particular prices under the existing circumstances. [1] Some of the more important factors affecting supply are the good's own price, the prices of related goods, production costs, technology, the production function, and expectations of sellers.

  9. Supply shock - Wikipedia

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    When there is a supply shock, this has an adverse effect on aggregate supply: the supply curve shifts left (from AS 1 to AS 2), while the demand curve stays in the same position. The intersection of the supply and demand curves has now moved and the equilibrium is now point B; quantity has been reduced to Y 2 , while the price level has been ...