demand Flashcards
What is a market?
Any arrangement where buyers and sellers interact to carry out an economic transaction.
Law of demand
A law stating that as the price of a good falls, the quantity demanded will increase over a certain period of time, ceteris paribus.
Relationship between an individual’s demand and market demand
Total market demand = the sum of all the individual demand curves (for the same good)
AD
Aggregate demand: Planned spending on domestic goods and services at different average price levels, per period of time. Consists government expenditures plus net exports.
SRAS
Short-run aggregate supply: The total quantity of real output (real GDP) offered at different possible price levels in the short run (when wages and other resource prices are constant).