Businesses study demand to price products to meet demand and generate profits. The demand curve demonstrates visually how the decreasing price for a product increases the quantity purchased.

The Quarterly Journal of Economics Vol. 41, No. 2, Feb., 1927 What Do Statistical "Demand Curves" Show... How statistical demand curves are constructed, 213.--The theory of the demand-and-supply curve ...

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