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In economics goods/services usually have either elastic or inelastic elasticities of demand. Elastic demand means that a change in price results in a proportionally larger change in quantity demanded, whi...

Inflation can be described as the constant tendency for price levels to rise in an economy. There are many factors involved which determine the overall effect of inflation on a business. Firstly, an incre...

A monopoly is a type of market structure where by the market is dominated by one company. Due to the lack of participants in the market, the monopoly has the ability of charging high prices with low quant...

First of all this is something that people very frequently struggle with and it can be difficult to get your head around at first. But if we were to look at the demand curve it is easier to visualise the ...

The first thing to do in this question is to make sure to define the terms. A negative externality is the negative unintended spill-over effects of an economic activity. In this case, when the factory pro...