Lecture 2: Applying Supply and Demand Instructor: Jon Gruber, 14.01 students View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/14-01SCF10 License: Creative ...
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MIT OpenCourseWare at ocw.mit.edu. PROFESSOR: Now, what we're going
to do today is build on what you learned in
section on Friday. On Friday, you learned about how
supply and demand interact to yield equilibrium. So the sort of fundamental
concepts we talked about with Adam Smith and his water-diamond
paradox of supply and demand interacting
to yield a market price and quantity. And the way we're going to build
on your understanding of this today is talk about what
happens when you shock that supply and demand equilibrium. ...