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This lecture is about some linear models of equilibrium prices and
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quantities, one of the main topics of elementary microeconomics.
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## Outline
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This lecture is about some models of equilibrium prices and quantities, one of
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the main topics of elementary microeconomics.
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Our approach is first to offer a scalar version with one good and one price.
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Throughout the lecture, we focus on models with one good and one price.
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## Outline
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({doc}`Later <supply_demand_multiple_goods>` we will investigate settings with
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many goods.)
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We shall describe two classic welfare theorems:
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* social welfare as a sum of consumer and producer surpluses
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* competitive equilibrium
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We will use the following imports.
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```{code-cell} ipython3
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import numpy as np
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import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
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```
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## Supply and Demand
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We study a market for a single good in which buyers and sellers exchange a quantity $q$ for a price $p$.
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We call them inverse demand and supply curves because price is on the left side of the equation rather than on the right side as it would be in a direct demand or supply function.
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### Surpluses and Welfare
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We define **consumer surplus** as the area under an inverse demand curve minus $p q$:
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Let's remember the quantity $q$ given by equation {eq}`eq:old1` that a social planner would choose to maximize consumer plus producer surplus.
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We'll compare it to the quantity that emerges in a competitive equilibrium equilibrium that equates
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supply to demand.
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We'll compare it to the quantity that emerges in a competitive equilibrium
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equilibrium that equates supply to demand.
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### Competitive Equilibrium
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Instead of equating quantities supplied and demanded, we'll can accomplish the same thing by equating demand price to supply price:
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$$
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p = d_0 - d_1 q = s_0 + s_1 q ,
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$$
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It we solve the equation defined by the second equality in the above line for $q$, we obtain the
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competitive equilibrium quantity; it equals the same $q$ given by equation {eq}`eq:old1`.
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* after solving the welfare problem for an optimal quantity, we can read a competitive equilibrium price from either supply price or demand price at the competitive equilibrium quantity
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Soon we'll derive generalizations of the above demand and supply
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curves from other objects.
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### Generalizations
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In later lectures, we'll derive generalizations of the above demand and
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supply curves from other objects.
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Our generalizations will extend the preceding analysis of a market for a single good to the analysis
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of $n$ simultaneous markets in $n$ goods.
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Our generalizations will extend the preceding analysis of a market for a
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single good to the analysis of $n$ simultaneous markets in $n$ goods.
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In addition
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* we'll derive **demand curves** from a consumer problem that maximizes a **utility function** subject to a **budget constraint**.
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* we'll derive **supply curves** from the problem of a producer who is price taker and maximizes his profits minus total costs that are described by a **cost function**.
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