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ACCESSIBILITY: The location of economic activity (especially in terms of land) relative to other activities. As real estate agents are prone to say, "The three most important factors in real estate are 'location, location, location.'" Accessibility determines how easy or difficult (read this as costly) it is to allocate good, services, and resources. Transportation is a key factor in accessibility. Efficient, low cost transportation systems improve accessibility.
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Lesson 7: Market Equilibrium | Unit 1: The Exchange
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Equilibrium is the balance of opposing forces that remains unchanged until another force intervenes. For example: If two people are pushing in opposite ways on a swinging door with equal strength, then neither will be able to go through. Each pusher represents an opposing force. For a market, the opposing forces are: - Demand. Buyers want to pay a lower price.
- Supply. Sellers want to receive a higher price.
Market equilibrium is indicated by equilibrium quantity and equilibrium price.- Equilibrium quantity is the quantity of a good traded among buyers and sellers when a market is in equilibrium.
- Equilibrium price is the price agreed to by buyers and sellers when a market is in equilibrium.
- Buyers and sellers will continue to trade the equilibrium quantity at the equilibrium price indefinitely.
- But, the equilibrium quantity and price can be disrupted by ceteris paribus determinants of demand and supply. Analyzing these disruptions help us understand economic events.
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ABSTRACTION Simplifying the complexities of the real world by ignoring (hopefully) unimportant details while doing economic analysis. Abstraction is an essential feature of the scientific method. Hypothesis verification, model construction, and comparative static analysis are not possible without abstraction.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time wandering around the shopping mall hoping to buy either a T-shirt commemorating Thor Heyerdahl's Pacific crossing aboard the Kon-Tiki or a wall poster commemorating the 2000 Olympics. Be on the lookout for telephone calls from former employers.
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John Maynard Keynes was born the same year Karl Marx died.
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