Microeconomics-02-需求与供给.ppt

* By the time all elements have appeared on the screen, the slide will look kind of busy. I think this is okay, because the elements appear on the screen one by one, so students have time to absorb each one before the next one appears. However, if you’d rather strip the slide down a bit, here’s a suggestion: in “Normal” view (which one uses to edit slides), you can delete the boxes that represent the initial and new values of drug-related crime, and the accompanying captions. Then, when presenting this slide in class, simply point out (with your mouse cursor, a laser pointer, or even your arms and hands) the areas that represent the initial and new values of drug-related crime. * This graph replicates the one in Figure 6. Note: The graph here is not quite drawn to scale. When the price rises from $3 to $4 (a 29% increase, using the midpoint method), quantity rises from 100 to 120 (or 67%). Because 67% 29%, price elasticity of supply is greater than one. When the price rises from $12 to $15 (22%), quantity rises from 500 to 525 (about 5%), so price elasticity of supply is less than one. The way I like to explain this is as follows: When output is very low, it is relatively easy for firms to increase output. They may have excess capacity, or they are not requiring full effort from their workers. Increasing output is not difficult, so it doesn’t take much of an increase in price to induce an increase in production. When output is very high, it is relatively expensive for firms to increase output further: there’s little or no excess capacity, they are already running their factories and machines at a high level of intensity. To increase output further, they might have to pay their workers overtime, and their machines experience more wear and tear and therefore require more repairs. So, at high levels of output, it takes a much larger price increase to make firms willing to increase output further. Eventually, firms bump up against their