Most agricultural economics teachers spend a considerable amount of time teaching elasticities. Students like examples, and they like those examples to be real. In a recent Economics Letters article (see Price Elasticities of Demand are Minus One-Half), Kenneth Clements provides an interesting table and figure of elasticities, shown below.
Enjoy!
Thursday, July 24, 2008
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