Supply, Demand, and Government Interventions in Markets

This Discussion topic includes the market forces of supply and demand, supply and demand model, and supply and demand curves.

Read Chapters 3 and 4, and remember to include references and links to the websites that you feel are important contributors to your posts (comments).

Supply and demand is the foundation of the market economy and the basis of the study of economics.

a.Why supply and demand is considered as factors that make market economies work? Why supply and demand drives the market economy? Provide an example of the role of supply and demand in business decision making.

b.What is the difference between a movement along and a shift of the demand and supply curves? What are the factors that lead to shifts in supply and demand curves?