Market Allocation and Demand Principles

What primarily drives the supply in a market-based economy?

According to the Law of Demand, what happens to quantity demanded when the price of a product increases?

What is the relationship called that describes how different quantities of a product are demanded at various prices?

Which of the following contributes to the creation of demand in a market?

How is total market demand for a good determined?

Which of the following statements correctly describes consumer behavior in relation to demand?

What is the effect of a consumer purchasing a product on demand?

What causes the inverse relationship between price and quantity demanded?

What is the primary mechanism through which resources are allocated in a capitalistic system?

What assumption does economic theory make about individual buyers and sellers in the market?

What two behaviors are shaped by the pricing system according to economic theory?

What characterizes perfect competition in a market system?

According to Alfred Marshall, what is comparable to the interaction of supply and demand in the market?

How do government interventions typically affect market dynamics?

What is the significance of price in a market according to economic theory?

What role do demand and supply play in establishing market equilibrium?

Market allocation is determined by the interaction of supply and demand.
Supply is driven by producers and demand is driven by consumers.
Perfect competition exists when there are many independent buyers and sellers.
The market is cleared when the price is reached that satisfies both producers and consumers.

Supply is created to meet consumer demand.
Producers seek opportunities to satisfy consumer needs.
Supply is a response to consumer spending.
Increased consumer demand for a product leads to increased production and price increases.

Consumer sovereignty determines what is produced in a market-based economy.
Demand is the relationship between the price of a product and the quantity demanded by consumers.
Demand is the series of prices and the related quantities that consumers are willing and able to purchase at a given time.

There is an inverse relationship between price and quantity demanded.
The quantity demanded is the amount of a product consumers are willing and able to purchase at a specific price.
As price increases, the quantity demanded decreases.
As price decreases, the quantity demanded increases.
Total market demand is the sum of the individual demands from all potential buyers.

There are three reasons for the inverse relationship between price and quantity demanded:
- Substitution Effect: Consumers will substitute a less expensive product for a more expensive one.
- Income Effect: As prices increase, consumers have less purchasing power, leading to reduced demand.
- Diminishing Marginal Utility: As consumption of a product increases, the satisfaction derived from each additional unit decreases, leading to lower demand.