Price elasticity of demand
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Describe the price elasticity of demand for a resource. Why is it important and what is it used for?
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Price elasticity of demand (hereafter ped) describes the responsiveness for prices changes of a particular good/service. It is measure from 0 to -infinity. A ped between -1 to 0 is known as inelastic and this means that less responsive to price changes (0 is the extreme end, known as perfect inelastic and it means that consumers will not change the amount they purchase no ...
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