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NASH EQUILIBRIUM: A concept from Game Theory which establishes that a set of strategies followed by economic agents within a game is in equilibrium if, holding the strategies of all other economic agents constant, no economic agent can obtain a higher payoff by choosing a different strategy. For example, when firms operate within an oligopoly, once a Nash equilibrium has been reached, none of them will want to change their strategy because by doing it they cannot obtain a higher profit.
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Lesson Contents
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Unit 1: Buying Basics |
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Unit 2: Law of Demand |
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Unit 3: Demand Curve |
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Unit 4: Determinants |
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Unit 5: Scarcity |
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Demand
This lesson on demand offers a little insight into the purchases of a wide range of goods. In fact, this demand topic is does more than offer insight into buying behavior. It's also one half of the market analysis -- the other half being supply. And market analysis is one of the most widely used tools in the study of economics. Economists explain a lot of economic phenomenon using markets. But to use markets, we need demand. And that brings us back to this lesson. - In the first unit of this lesson we examine the basic concept of demand. While you've likely come across the term demand before, we'll see the specific way the term is used in economics.
- The second unit then takes a look at the law of demand, which is one of the most important and most fundamental economic principles that we'll encounter.
- As we more on to the third unit, our attention turns to the demand curve, which is the graphical embodiment of the demand concept.
- In the fourth unit, we examine how the five basic demand determinants cause the demand curve to shift from one location to another.
- And finally in the fifth unit, we make a connection between demand and the fundamental problem of scarcity.
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LABOR The mental and physical human efforts used in the production of goods and services. This is one of four basic categories of resources, or factors of production. The other three are capital, land, and entrepreneurship.
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ORANGE REBELOON
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time touring the new suburban shopping complex trying to buy either several magazines on home repairs or a remote controlled sports car with an air spoiler. Be on the lookout for empty parking spaces that appear to be near the entrance to a store.
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During the American Revolution, the price of corn rose 10,000 percent, the price of wheat 14,000 percent, the price of flour 15,000 percent, and the price of beef 33,000 percent.
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"What gets measured gets done." -- Peter Drucker, educator
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