Economics
Economics is concerned with the economic system and the problem of allocating resources, as most are scarce. They are scarce in terms of being finite, i.e. limited, and therefore decisions have to be made on the best way to use these resources; natural resources, labour and capitol. These resources constitute the ‘factors of production’ and produce the commodities, goods and services. The National Product is the total output of all commodities over a period of time. The way in which goods and services are produced and consumed within society is part of ‘microeconomics’, which is “the study of individual decisions and the interactions of these decisions… [including] … consumers’ decisions on what to buy, firms’ decisions on what to produce and the interactions of these decisions, which determine whether people can buy what they would like, whether firms can sell all that they produce and the profits firms make by providing and selling” (Craven 1990:4). T
DEMAND CURVE: As real income increases, the demand for luxury goods also increases As the amount of customers’ real income has risen, the demand for luxury goods such as cars has also gone up (D0 to D1), i.e. more are being purchased at that particular price. Yet, as the prices of these goods increase, the rate by which demand is increase will begin to slow down and level off, as cars are elastic in demand and increased prices will lead to less being purchased, as customers are sensitive towards the price change. Because of this, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) have said it suspects sales to drop back in 2003 after the great increase of demand over the last three years.
Some topics in this essay:
National Product,
London Cardiff,
Traders SMMT,
Transport Economics,
D0 D1,
Arabia Kuwait,
United Kingdom,
DEMAND CURVE,
public transport,
increased petrol prices,
transport economics,
increase demand,
petrol prices,
real income,
demand luxury,
increased petrol,
car sales,
demand increase,
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