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of scarcity forces societies to make choices economies what
point the PPC to
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produce ( This involves choice of what I how to produce -
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prices determined by
forces of demand &
markets
supply in
competitive
FUNCTIONS OF PRICE MECHANISM
1 Prices as
signals and incentives & the allocation of resources
condition must decide
of scarcity forces societies to make choices economies what
point the PPC to
-
on on
produce ( This involves choice of what I how to produce -
which of its available resources t in what quantities ,
to allocate
to produce a chosen combination of goods f services ) These decisions ,
in a market economy ,
are made by prices in the
free market interactions of demanders & suppliers market mechanism Invisible
resulting from this is called the
-
-
Hand Market
of the
As
Signals T
prices communicate info to decision -
makers
As Incentives motivate decision
respond
- makers to
prices
-
to the
information
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higher price signalled to the si
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shortage for the
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quantity of labour
Prices and
2 Rationing ur method of approaching / parceling out
goods Is among consumers / households
determined
whether or not a consumer will
get good a is
by the price of a good
Price Rationing is the real -
life example of the market mechanism at work / Adam Smith 's Invisible Hand
,
co -
ordinating buying and
selling decisions of decision-making units in an
economy w/o central
authority
* Non
price rationing
( cases where
price is not the
only determining factor) for example lines &
-
-
queues where consumers reaeve the production a
first come first serve basis .
