ECON 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Economic Equilibrium, Ice Cream, Takers
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Econ 200: chapter 4: the market forces of supply and demand. Supply and demand: refers to the behavior of people as they interact with one another in competitive markets. A market is a group of buyers and sellers of a particular good or service. Some markets are highly organized, but more often than not they are less organized. Competitive market: a market in which there are so many buyers and sellers that each has a negligible impact on the market price. The goods offered for sale are all exactly the same. The buyers and sellers are so numerous that no single buyer or seller has any influence over the market price. Price takers: buyers and sellers must accept the price the price the market determines. Monopoly: a market in which there is only one seller, and the seller sets the price. Quantity demanded: the amount of the good that buyers are willing and able to purchase.