A | B |
price definition | amount of money item sells for |
Change in Price | Anything that changes S and D causes this |
buying power | factor that affects how much customer pays b/c of income |
business use of relative price | business comparing cost of itmes to sell |
what's profitable | how producers answer what to produce |
lowest cost | how producers combine resources |
information | what everyone needs to make economic decisions |
profits | incentives to reallocate resources |
ration limited resources | way price is used in marketplace |
People who have money | Who gets goods in market economy |
price | what supply and demand interact to determine |
Sales go up | what happens when price is lowered |
Demand Goes down | what happens when price is increased |
Equilibrium price | consumer purchases = producers amounts |
excesss supply | production > buyers wants and abilities |
Lower prices or offer discounts | what producers do if s > D |
when excess demand is eliminated | when consumers buy more than producers have to sell |
excess supply will result | what happens when price is higher than equilibrium price |
market price | actual price that prevails in the marketplace and excess S and D causes changes in this |
value | price is based on consumers opinion of this |