Friday, January 25, 2013

Elasticity of Demand | Perfect Inelastic Demand

Why is there no such thing as a perfectly inelastic demand?


















Your Answer:
Perfectly inelastic demand suggests that any price can be charged for a good and consumers will still buy it. However, no matter how much a good is desired and/or needed, the price charged for that good cannot be changed without affecting the purchasing pattern of the consumers who desire it. Even a good necessary to maintain life cannot be priced beyond a certain level or consumers will simply seek a substitute good or other options.


Source: Heyne, Boettke, and Prychitko, The Economic Way of Thinking, 11/e, Pearson

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