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The document outlines key concepts about prices including how they help allocate resources and connect markets. It discusses how prices affect decisions for sellers and buyers and how changes in supply and demand impact prices. The document also examines social goals related to prices and policies around price controls.

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OUTLINE NOTES & ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS


2.3 UNDERSTANDING PRICES
ENTER FACTS ABOUT EACH ESSENTIAL QUESTION WITH FIVE WORDS OR LESS THAN ANSWER THE ESSENTIAL QUESTION.

LESSON 2.3.1 HOW PRICE WORKS


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How do prices help us make decisions?
1. PRICES ARE DECISION-MAKING TOOLS THAT AFFECT THE BEHAVIOR OF INDIVIDUALS, BUSINESSES, MARKETS, AND INDUSTRIES
2. PRICES ACT AS SIGNALS THAT TELL PEOPLE TO BUY MORE OR LESS OF A PRODUCT, AND PRODUCERS TO PRODUCE MORE OR LESS OF A
PRODUCT
3. PRICES HELP ANSWER THE QUESTIONS WHAT, HOW, AND FOR WHOM TO PRODUCE BECAUSE
Answer the Essential Question:

Are prices the best way to allocate resources?


1. Rationing is a system in which government decides everyone’s “fair” share
2. Implementing a rationing system that everyone perceives as fair is almost impossible
3. Rationing has high administrative expenses
4. Rationing distorts market incentives and does not solve the basic problem of supply an demand
5. Rationing systems can be abused and misused
Answer the Essential Question:

How do prices connect markets in an economy?


1. A price system can help allocate resources within and between markets
2. The overall impact of higher prices in one market is to shift productive resources out of some industries and into others
3. Because it helps allocate resources between markets, the price system is considered an informational network that links all markets in
the economy
Answer the Essential Question:
LESSON 2.3.2: THE EFFECTS OF PRICES
How does price affect a seller’s decision to produce a product?
1. Buyers who want to find bargains and sellers who hope for large profits both play a part in determining prices
2. Because transactions in a market economy are voluntary, the pricecompromise that settles the differences between buyers and sellers
must benefit both parties
3. When used together, supply and demand curves intersect at the equilibrium price, where the quantity of products supplied equals the
quantity demanded
4. A surplus occurs when the price for a product is too high
5. A shortage occurs when the price for a product is too low.
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How do changes in supply and demand affect prices?


1. Changes in supply can cause large price variations
2. Factors that affect individual demand also affect the market demand for goods, which affects the prices of those goods.
3. In most cases, price is affected by concurrent changes in supply and demand
4. The price system is more efficient when markets are competitive.
5. Competitive markets allow prices to adjust naturally in response to surpluses and shortages
6. Competitive markets allocate resources efficiently
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LESSON 2.3.3: SOCIAL GOALS, PRICES, AND MARKET EFFICIENCY
What are the costs and benefits of economic policies aimed at creating equity and security?
1. In the modified free enterprise economy of the United States, the government sometimes interferes in the market to achieve a socially
desirable goal
2. A price ceiling is a maximum legal price that can be charged for a product, and because it is set below the product’s equilibrium point,
the result is a shortage
3. A price floor is the lowest legal price that can be charged for a product, and because it is set above the product’s equilibrium point, the
result is a surplus
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Whom do price supports benefit and whom do they hurt?


1. A price floor and nonrecourse government loans are being used in the sugar industry to stabilize sugar (farm) prices and to help
domestic producers compete with foreign producers
2. Some cities use price ceilings to control rents and make housing affordable for middle and low-income consumers
3. Government legislation to achieve any of the seven broad economic and social goals most Americans share usually conflicts with at
least one of the other goals
4. After price supports such as price ceilings and floors are put in place, they often have enough political support to keep them there,
even when they are no longer needed
Answer the Essential Question:

How do markets “talk”?


1. Markets send signals that collectively represent the actions of buyers and sellers
2. When prices move up or down significantly in reaction to a related event, markets are said to “talk.
3. Examples of events that may cause markets to talk include a rise in gold prices, a fall in stock prices, and a rise in oil prices
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