Friday, March 21, 2014

03/21/2014 Weekly Reflective Blog


Supply and more supply

This week we mostly learned about supply and supply curves.A Supply curve, in economics, graphic representation of the relationship between product price and quantity of product that a seller is willing and able to supply. Product price is measured on the vertical axis of the graph and quantity of product supplied on the horizontal axis. In most cases, the supply curve is drawn as a slope rising upward from left to right, since product price and quantity supplied are directly related (i.e., as the price of a commodity increases in the market, the amount supplied increases). This relationship is dependent on certain other things equal conditions remaining constant. Such conditions include the number of sellers in the market, the state of technology, the level of production costs, the seller’s price expectations, and the prices of related products. A change in any of these conditions will cause a shift in the supply curve. A shifting of the curve to the left corresponds to a decrease in the quantity of product supplied, whereas a shift to the right reflects an increase. We also had a quiz that tested our knowledge of supply and supply curve.

Friday, March 14, 2014

Weekly Blog 03/14/2014

This was a long week in my opinion. There were a lot of things we had to learn. We learned even more about demand, elasticity and stuff like that. Elasticity of demand describes how responsive consumers are to price changes in the marketplace, we also learned what elastic and inelastic means; Elastic is a change in the price that equals to a relatively LARGE change in quantity demanded and Inelastic is the change in price that equals a relatively SMALLER change in quantity demanded. We also learned how to calculate the elasticity of demand percentages with the formula % ᐃ Q / % ᐃ P. We had a group project that advertised our city Weserville in order to increase it popularity, in these ads we included the six factors that affect demand (personal taste, income, income distribution, etc.) This week was very interesting and full of new things to learn.