Eco 365 Week 2 Learning Team Reflection

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Learning Team Reflection Kristine Agabaian, Lena Fang, Terry Fletcher, Nicole Fredricks, Sandra Harvey, Elizabeth Moomjian ECO/365 February 25, 2013 Sangeeta Bishop Learning Team Reflection Among the students of Team C there is a general consensus that economics is a new experience. The concepts that have given the most trouble were numerous among the team and the best help that the team received was through the extra information provided by Sangeeta, and through the discussions questions. Kristine’s reflection This week has been another challenging week for me. Our first discussion was about diminishing returns and decreasing returns to scale. We discussed the difference between the two and learned…show more content…
The elastic VS inelastic states that the law of demand depends by how much quantity demanded responds to a price change. When a price change causes larger change in quantity demanded then the price would be elastic. However when a price change causes smaller then the demand is elastic. The law of demand states that as prices raise the people would like to buy less and the quantity demanded falls. As the prices fall, the people would like to buy more and the quantity demanded increases. For example, the dial hand foam soap is buy three get one free. I would buy more because it saves me money therefore the quantity demanded…show more content…
The easiest concept to grasp was the difference between macroeconomics and microeconomics. Sometimes the text proved a little hard to read but the notes posted in the main forum provided some great examples and clarity. What I struggled with was quantity demanded and demand. When things are labeled only slightly differently it gets confusing. We also discussed elastic and inelastic and I learned there are two kinds that affect pricing. First is "price elasticity of demand [which] is the percentage change in quantity demanded divided by the percentage change in price [and] price elasticity of supply is the percentage change in quantity supplied divided by the percentage change in price" (Colander, 2010, p. 154). Applying these to real world scenarios and applications aided in understanding the
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