曼昆经济学原理第5版微观第五章(5)免费中文版.pptVIP

* It might be worth explaining to your students that “P and Q move in opposite directions” means that the percentage change in Q and the percentage change in P will have opposite signs, thus implying a negative price elasticity. To be consistent with the text, the last statement in the green box says that we will report all price elasticities as positive numbers. It might be slightly more accurate to say that we will report all elasticities as non-negative numbers: we want to allow for the (admittedly rare) case of zero elasticity. * These calculations are based on the example shown a fe