Discuss goods market, factor market,and/or labor market.
Demand and supply are elementary and essential in microeconomics, and
in each application, they may take different forms.
As A. Marshall stated, they together determine the market price.
Why is price important?
For starters, it is an easy-to-quantitate variable.
Second, it conveys valuation traders put on their commodities.
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