Explain the main factors which you would expect to determine the quantities supplied and demanded in a market of your choice. Illustrate your answer with Demand and Supply curves.

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Explain the main factors which you would expect to determine the quantities supplied and demanded in a market of your choice. Illustrate your answer with Demand and Supply curves, showing the effects of different changes on the market, assuming other things remain equal.

Economics is the study of the production and distribution of wealth and how resources are distributed for the production of goods and services within a social system. Economics provides the language, principles and a way of thinking to help people unravel why they have to make choices.  ()                

Throughout this assignment I am going to discuss the main factors that determine the quantities supplied and demanded in the UK market for shoes.

“Supply is the amount of goods available at a given price at any time. Demand is how many consumers desire the goods that are in supply.”

When there are many people in the market, no one person or firm has any real control over the market price or the total quantity sold. Consumers are all unique, but they do share some common attributes. They do be inclined to react to market circumstances in similar ways. The demand relationship identifies the similarities across buyers.

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The amount of people demanding shoes can radically increase or decrease each week in relation to both internal and external factors of the market. The demand curve can be defined as the “graphical representation of the relationship between the demand for a good and its price, drawn on the assumption that everything else affecting demand remains unchanged.

        

One major factor that affects the demand for shoes in the UK is price. UK consumers are extremely price conscious and ...

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