The Equilibrium Price and Quantity

In this lesson, we investigate how prices reach equilibrium and how the market works like an invisible hand coordinating economic activity. At equilibrium, the price is stable and gains from trade are maximized. When the price is not at equilibrium, a shortage or a surplus occurs. The equilibrium price is the result of competition amongst buyers and sellers.
**TEACHER RESOURCES**
Supply and Demand 5-day HS unit plan: mru.io/8ue
Assessment questions: mru.io/principles-b1be1
EconInbox, a free weekly email of class-ready news articles, videos, and more: mru.io/econinbox-3ba48
More high school teacher resources: mru.io/high-school-4fa52
More professor resources: mru.io/university-teaching-c6b5f
**CONTINUE LEARNING**
Next video-Understanding the Demand Curve: Shifts and Consumer Surplus: mru.io/demand-f58d7
Practice questions: mru.io/equilibrium-price-8d047
Full Microeconomics course: mru.io/cp1
00:00 Equilibrium Price and Quantity
00:55 Buyers and Sellers
01:21 Surplus Example - Price is Too High
01:54 Shortage Example - Price is Too Low
02:36 Properties of Market Equilibrium

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  • @roronoalkosi6293
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  • @MarginalRevolutionUniversity

    @MarginalRevolutionUniversity

    7 жыл бұрын

    Glad we could help, Roronoa! -Meg

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    7 жыл бұрын

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    6 жыл бұрын

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  • @1001spencer
    @1001spencer7 жыл бұрын

    Just a quick note to anyone watching, the waste he describes is called a dead weight loss. This dead weight lost would also occur if buyers/consumers were not buying and selling goods below the equilibrium price

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    @fireemblem2770

    3 жыл бұрын

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    2 жыл бұрын

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    7 ай бұрын

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    7 ай бұрын

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    3 ай бұрын

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    @ricardo.chaverra9 ай бұрын

    I'm new into knowing a little bit of economics, and I recently read Misbehaving by Richard H. Thaler, which talks about behavioral economics and how this "invisible hand" concept that gets the market back into equilibrium is flawed, because it doesn't account for consumers' lack of basic economic know how/shopping around for the best deal. I'm new to the channel, so far i like it but this video does feel a little outdated, it will be nice to see an updated version that takes peoples choices into account.

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    @timmelon81087 жыл бұрын

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    @berke-ozgen5 жыл бұрын

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  • @MarginalRevolutionUniversity
    @MarginalRevolutionUniversity3 жыл бұрын

    ***TEACHER RESOURCES*** Supply and Demand 5-day HS unit plan: mru.io/few Assessment questions: mru.io/principles-52be0 More high school teacher resources: mru.io/high-school-885cb More professor resources: mru.io/university-teaching-39996 ***CONTINUE LEARNING*** Next video-A Deeper Look at the Demand Curve: mru.io/demand-9fe6d Practice questions: mru.io/equilibrium-price-db048 Full Microeconomics course: mru.io/rqj

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    @The007asraaf2 жыл бұрын

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    @babyj1278 жыл бұрын

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    @tisi46359 жыл бұрын

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    @25rada4 жыл бұрын

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    @mayam4480Ай бұрын

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    @paolo93848 жыл бұрын

    I'm a young student and i found your lesson very brilliant! But i have a question: does it exist a point where the surplus of consumer and surplus of producer reaches 0 as a value? When does it happen?

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    @shannonwu68768 жыл бұрын

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    @Ignaciodev7 жыл бұрын

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    @LeoKasper4262 жыл бұрын

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    @vitalrf36024 жыл бұрын

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  • @zackolguin3916
    @zackolguin39166 жыл бұрын

    Is finding the equilibrium something that always happens over time or is it something the businesses can calculate and nail right away?

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    @johnalexisfranco82653 жыл бұрын

    Wow. this sums up the 20 pages I read. Understood better too!

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    @Mranonymous93 жыл бұрын

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    @mohamedinshaff19046 жыл бұрын

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    @GS-zx1kk7 жыл бұрын

    Many people over look the marketing aspect of economics. Sociology plays a big part on sales.

  • @MN-si8jk
    @MN-si8jk7 жыл бұрын

    How do i find market equilibrium price and quantity if i have two demand curves one one graph?

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    @tariqallawati44143 жыл бұрын

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    @DiyaGupta3 жыл бұрын

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    @ahmedfathalla27767 жыл бұрын

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  • @vellam8766
    @vellam87664 жыл бұрын

    😄 ooooh ahhh😂. this is the most entertaining video on equilibrium.

  • @TotalMobilizationOfLifeForce
    @TotalMobilizationOfLifeForce4 жыл бұрын

    How do you determine prices when supply and demand cancel each other out?

  • @timfronimos459
    @timfronimos459 Жыл бұрын

    Do you have a video that explains Inflation?

  • @shahshadranj_Mehr
    @shahshadranj_Mehr4 жыл бұрын

    Hi.tnx for your video. Say me about. If our P,price,10 Q. Demand 100. If .price 11. Demand 80. I don't understand about that . Thanks 🙏

  • @satanicglobalistilluminati8100
    @satanicglobalistilluminati81004 жыл бұрын

    this feels like it is not always true here in america things like drug prices are extremely high but the cost of production is insanely low you can create artificial prices by increasing the price of drugs then lowing it slightly but still having it be insanely high and because its something people need, demand will still shift to being profitable.

  • @GforGenius_
    @GforGenius_7 жыл бұрын

    does every form of market reach to the equilibrium price?

  • @melona3977
    @melona3977 Жыл бұрын

    nice video thank you

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    @isabelzondai2 жыл бұрын

    I can't count how many things I learned on KZread than at school!

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    @Absolutely_awesome6723 жыл бұрын

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    @yogevnach4 жыл бұрын

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    @tGoldenPhoenix3 жыл бұрын

    thank you

  • @old_romans
    @old_romans2 жыл бұрын

    Interesting note: after working in Auto Parts for 15 years, I wanted to point out that the price of gasoline does fluctuate, however, quarts/bottles of oil never go back down...they always increase in price. I always that that was pretty messed up.

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    @harunaissifu69764 жыл бұрын

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  • @user-tv7tq8si6f
    @user-tv7tq8si6f7 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for your videos, but I have one misunderstanding about this one-- why more valuable oil are wasted by making rubber duckies when the quantity beyond equilibrium quantity. Thank you!

  • @Mh05Rider

    @Mh05Rider

    7 жыл бұрын

    they dont weast it by making it they make them on consumer demand some of the consumer demand for it so they have to produce them

  • @fredericosilveiramachado5792

    @fredericosilveiramachado5792

    7 жыл бұрын

    Vedant Kharje

  • @Andy-em8xt

    @Andy-em8xt

    4 жыл бұрын

    Rubber duckies may not be the best example. But essentially you're taking oil that took $50 to extract and turning into products that are worth $30. $20 of value was lost/destroyed.

  • @utopianintallect6219
    @utopianintallect62198 жыл бұрын

    who is teaching the lesson alex tabarrok or tyler cowen

  • @mohanish007
    @mohanish0073 жыл бұрын

    I didn't understand part at 1:44 . Why does the supply has to decrease when sellers sell their products at lower price. They will still have marginal benefit when they sell same or more about of goods.

  • @ghostofpast550

    @ghostofpast550

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well the demand is at $50 so the sellers who sells at that price can only make money considering that the production cost is lower than that price. The seller who don't decrease their price won't get to sell their product.

  • @ghostofpast550

    @ghostofpast550

    3 жыл бұрын

    The demand isn't exactly at $50, buyers always want to pay less so they are not going to pay more. At $50 they are somewhat satisfied fied with the price.

  • @ghostofpast550

    @ghostofpast550

    3 жыл бұрын

    Also similarly sellers also want to profit more so they want to sell at higher prices, below $50 they are not willing to sell their goods. If they do not sell their goods no one will get to buy their good, people who have money and need the good badly are going to pay more. As sellers were willing to sell at $50 this buyers are willing to pay $50 thus the equilibrium.

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    @blubbfisch987 жыл бұрын

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    @hadikhan69174 жыл бұрын

    I would say just wow.

  • @anderserk
    @anderserk7 жыл бұрын

    well, at the end you refer to Adam Smith and the invisivble hand. In his book "The wealth of nations" he mentions the invisible hand only in another context, explaining why the free movement of capital can not be expected, since the hand in question would stop capitalists from taking risks in very foreign environments! Check it out! Does he use it in the mostly assumed way in another context somewhere? Not to my knowledge.

  • @egyMag1990
    @egyMag19906 жыл бұрын

    I don't thin this curve can be applied to all goods some times sellers can lower the price and the quantity stay the same and the opposite

  • @clockfixer5049
    @clockfixer50494 жыл бұрын

    But how is equilibrium price determined?

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    @fascinatingniceview58446 жыл бұрын

    👍

  • @ffletch5277
    @ffletch5277 Жыл бұрын

    Our president Brandon needs to watch this video a few times until he learns it.

  • @PragmaticWays
    @PragmaticWays7 жыл бұрын

    Can you be my substitute professor for the rest of the semester?

  • @MarginalRevolutionUniversity

    @MarginalRevolutionUniversity

    7 жыл бұрын

    Sort of! We've got a full Micro course playlist here: kzread.info/head/PL-uRhZ_p-BM4XnKSe3BJa23-XKJs_k4KY Good luck in your course! -Meg

  • @moodifi

    @moodifi

    7 жыл бұрын

    Als ersetze das Programm nicht jegliche Professoren

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    @user-ld7rd7rn6u

    6 жыл бұрын

    LOL!

  • @james1098778910
    @james10987789105 жыл бұрын

    you shouldn't the business produce above the equilibrium price and produce as much as demanded?

  • @havenofiadagad5841

    @havenofiadagad5841

    5 жыл бұрын

    No cause he would loose money, and nobody will buy from him

  • @maggotoftool
    @maggotoftool Жыл бұрын

    All videos are fucking good. Thank you I guess 1:17 buyers should be ↑↑↑↑

  • @riyakanwar1101
    @riyakanwar11013 жыл бұрын

    Sir please upload full course of class 12 also

  • @ghostofpast550

    @ghostofpast550

    3 жыл бұрын

    They are situated in America, they do not know what class 12 means. Plus there is no microeconomics in class 12.

  • @fireemblem2770
    @fireemblem27703 жыл бұрын

    It can take a few viewings, but eventually it will be as clear as can be… Also, SALE TIME!!!!!!

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    @EIIjot8 жыл бұрын

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  • @MarginalRevolutionUniversity

    @MarginalRevolutionUniversity

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Elliot Halpenny What question did you miss? Thanks, Mary Clare

  • @maxwelltoshach8208
    @maxwelltoshach82083 жыл бұрын

    Of course, all of this assumes that everyone is acting in their best interest.

  • @Fonseca429
    @Fonseca4298 жыл бұрын

    How could the oil price be $50?

  • @anouarelmjabber9922

    @anouarelmjabber9922

    8 жыл бұрын

    if the demand for oil is high and the supply is low,the price can reach the 50$ and more

  • @juhanaislam7884
    @juhanaislam78843 жыл бұрын

    2:38

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    @tranngochung85085 жыл бұрын

    Anyone know what app used to make this kind of video?? Cuz i gonna do video project like this

  • @justinsandolph4861
    @justinsandolph48616 жыл бұрын

    but I don't understand I got confused

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    @mercury8115 Жыл бұрын

    4:06 RCT3 sound effect lol

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    @serdargokhansenbay1436 жыл бұрын

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  • @teacherosei9930
    @teacherosei99308 жыл бұрын

    actually it explain it better but just that teacher talks fast .

  • @Nowaroftheworld
    @Nowaroftheworld2 жыл бұрын

    Вас тоже училка заставляет смотреть это видео?

  • @adrianomattia5625
    @adrianomattia56257 жыл бұрын

    i'm just 14 and i'm watching this lol

  • @MarginalRevolutionUniversity

    @MarginalRevolutionUniversity

    7 жыл бұрын

    Never too early to start learning econ! :) -Meg

  • @adrianomattia5625

    @adrianomattia5625

    7 жыл бұрын

    Well said! Econ is really interesting. -Adriano, from italy

  • @abdulahadshabbir2618

    @abdulahadshabbir2618

    7 жыл бұрын

    I wish people from countries like mine, (Pakistan) emphasized more on econ as a PRIMARY subject in schools...can't really figure out HOW can a society at large make a rational decision without having adequete knowledge of economics? Great work...love u guys, thank you

  • @MarginalRevolutionUniversity

    @MarginalRevolutionUniversity

    7 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, Abdul! I totally agree with you. Unfortunately, I think that economics education is sorely lacking at all levels around the world. Here in the U.S., it's not offered in many high schools, or might get a few weeks attention as part of a Civics course. I think we'd all be better off if kids started learning basic econ at a very early age. -Meg

  • @abdulahadshabbir2618

    @abdulahadshabbir2618

    7 жыл бұрын

    Marginal Revolution University ofcourse...when people have no idea of basic factors that determine their long and short term future, they start making silly choices...specialy underdeveloped countries like mine where people choose govt.subsidy running multi million PKRs bus service over health and education.Anyways, long story...thank u once again.

  • @_CooperDill_
    @_CooperDill_ Жыл бұрын

    2023

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    @gauravmohan92712 жыл бұрын

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  • @plumeater1
    @plumeater18 жыл бұрын

    1:35 freaked me out