Demand and supply diagrams to be used to illustrate these changes in market conditions and their consequences for equilibrium price and sales.
Definition, drawing and interpretation of demand and supply schedules and curves used to establish equilibrium price and sales in a market. Definition, drawing and interpretation of demand and supply schedules and curves used to identify disequilibrium prices and shortages (demand exceeding supply) and surpluses (supply exceeding demand).
How a market system works; including buyers, sellers, allocation of scarce resources, market equilibrium, and market disequilibrium. Establishing that the economic problem creates three key questions about determining resource allocation – what to produce, how, and for whom. How the price mechanism provides answers to these key allocation questions.