Principles of Microeconomics / Unit 3 MIC 0219 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Prices Carry Information in Three Markets
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The idea
A price, a wage and an interest rate all transmit what is known about scarcity. A rising wage tells students to train; a rising rate tells firms to postpone weak projects.
In practice
A grower plants more oats without knowing why the oat price rose.
Where people slip
A control kills the messenger: the forces beneath the price remain; only the signal is gone.
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