1. Homework: None FrontPage: Do you think you can have an effect on the price of something?

2. or… Capitalists do it with an invisible hand… Chapter 2, Section 1

3. Or, …Do as I say, not as I don’t say… Chapter 2, Section 2

4. Or…It’s Good to Be the King Chapter 2, Section 2

5. Or…Going to Your Happy Place Chapter 2, Section 4

12. Or…My Pet Rock Died.

13. Demand : the desire to have some good or service and the ability to pay for it. It isn’t enough for consumers to desire a good, if they cannot afford it. It isn’t enough for consumers to be able to afford a good, if they don’t really desire it.

14. When the price of a good of service falls, consumers buy more of it. (P , then Q D  ) As the price of a good or service increases, consumers buy less of it. (P , then Q D  ) Quantity demanded and price have an inverse (opposite) relationship.

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19. Homework: None FrontPage: How are demand and price related?

20. When the price of a good of service falls, consumers buy more of it. (P , then Q D  ) As the price of a good or service increases, consumers buy less of it. (P , then Q D  ) Quantity demanded and price have an inverse (opposite) relationship.

21. A demand schedule is a table that shows how much of a good or service an individual consumer is willing and able to purchase at each possible price. market A market demand schedule shows how much of a good or service all consumers are willing and able to buy at each possible price.

22. Price per DVD ($) Quantity Demanded 300 251 202 153 104 57

23. Price per DVD ($) Quantity Demanded 3050 2575 20100 15125 10175 5300

24. A demand curve is a graph that shows how much of a good or service an individual consumer is willing and able to buy at each price. A market demand curve is a graph that shows how much of a good or service all consumers in a market are willing and able to buy at each price.

25. Price per DVD (in dollars) 5 15 20 25 30 10 1234567 Quantity Demanded of DVDs

26. Price per DVD (in dollars) 5 15 20 25 30 10 50100150200250300 Quantity Demanded of DVDs

27. The Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility – the benefit from using each additional unit of a good or service during a given time period tends to decline as each is used.