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Equilibrium
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Command and control market | A market that is completely control by the government |
| Laissez Faire market | A market that has no control from the government and is completely market driven |
| Hybrid market | A market that has some governmental regulations but is still driven by the market |
| Market | Any setting that brings together potential buyers and sellers. Does not have to include money |
| Market equilibrium | When the supply and demand curves intersect/where the quantity supplied and quantity demanded are the same |
| Quantity supplied | The amount companies want to sell in a market at a certain price |
| Quantity demanded | The amount people want to buy at a certain price in a market |
| Quantity supplied > quantity demanded | Excess supply |
| Lowered prices | Combats excess supply, quantity supplied goes down and quantity demanded goes up |
| Quantity demanded > quantity supplied | Excess demand |
| Raised prices | Combats excess demand, quantity supplied goes up and quantity demanded goes down |
| Prices are not raised | People get things through first-come first-served or lines, lotteries, need-based assignments, connections, force |
| Water-diamond paradox | Water is necessary but cheap, while diamonds are expensive but unnecessary. Happens because of marginal benefit |
| Demand increase | Excess demand, expected price and quantity increase |
| Demand decrease | Excess supply, expected price and quantity decrease |
| Supply increase | Excess supply, expected price decreased, expected quantity increases |
| Supply decrease | Excess demand, expected price increases, expected quantity decreases |
| Shift in demand curve | Expected price and quantity move in the same direction |
| Shift in supply curve | Expected price and quantity move in opposite directions |
| Shift in two different directions | Shift unkown |