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Demand

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Demand   Combination of desire, ability, and willingness to buy a product  
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Microeconomics   part of economics dealing with behavior and decision making by individual units, such as ppl and firms  
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Market Economy   economic system in which ppl and firms make all economic decisions  
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Demand Schedule   a table that lists how much of a product consumers will buy at all possible prices  
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Demand Curve   a curve that shows the quantities demanded at all possible prices  
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Law of Demand   rule stating that consumers will buy more of a product at lower prices and less at higher prices  
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Market Demand Curve   a curve that shows how much of a product all consumers will buy at all possible prices  
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Marginal Utility   additional satisfaction or usefulness a consumer gets from having one or more units of a product  
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Diminishing Marginal Utility   decrease in satisfaction or usefulness from having one more unit of the same product  
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Change in Quantity Demanded   movement along the demand curve showing that the amount someone is willing to purchase changes when the price changes  
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Income Effect   that part of a change in quantity demanded due to a change in the buyer’s real income when a price changes  
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Substitution Effect   that part of a change in quantity demanded due to a price change that makes other products more or less costly  
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Change in Demand   shift of the demand curve when ppl buy different amounts at every price  
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Substitutes   competing items that can be used in place of one another  
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Complements   products that increase the use of other products  
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Elasticity   a measure of responsiveness that shows how one variable responds to a change in another variable  
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Demand Elasticity   a measure that shows how a change in quantity demanded responds to a change in price  
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Elastic   type of elasticity where a change in price causes a relatively larger change in quantity demanded  
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Inelastic   type of elasticity where a change in price causes a relatively smaller change in quantity demanded  
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Unit Elastic   type of elasticity where a change in price causes a proportional change in quantity demanded  
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Total Expenditures   amount that consumers spend on a product at a particular price  
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