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Inferior good

Index Inferior good

In economics, inferior goods are those goods the demand for which falls with increase in income of the consumer. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 35 relations: Air travel, Alfred Marshall, Antique, Bangladesh, Beer, Bologna sausage, Bus, Canning, Closeout (sale), Consumer choice, Demand curve, Economics, Ersatz good, French fries, Frozen meal, Giffen good, Great Famine (Ireland), Greg Mankiw, Hamburger, Indifference curve, Instant noodles, International Potato Center, Kuznets curve, Law of demand, Normal good, Payday loan, Pizza, Potato, Price elasticity of demand, Rail transport, Rent-to-own, Robert Giffen, Substitute good, Substitution effect, Supply and demand.

Air travel

Air travel is a form of travel in vehicles such as airplanes, jet aircraft, helicopters, hot air balloons, blimps, gliders, hang gliders, parachutes, or anything else that can sustain flight.

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Alfred Marshall

Alfred Marshall (26 July 1842 – 13 July 1924) was an English economist, and was one of the most influential economists of his time.

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Antique

An antique is an item perceived as having value because of its aesthetic or historical significance, and often defined as at least 100 years old (or some other limit), although the term is often used loosely to describe any object that is old.

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.

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Beer

Beer is an alcoholic beverage produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches from cereal grains—most commonly malted barley, although wheat, maize (corn), rice, and oats are also used.

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Bologna sausage

Bologna sausage, informally baloney, is a sausage derived from the Italian mortadella, a similar-looking, finely ground pork sausage, named after the city of Bologna.

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Bus

A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van, but less than the average rail transport.

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Canning

Canning is a method of food preservation in which food is processed and sealed in an airtight container (jars like Mason jars, and steel and tin cans).

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Closeout (sale)

A closeout or clearance sale (closing down sale in the United Kingdom) is a discount sale of inventory either by retail or wholesale.

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Consumer choice

The theory of consumer choice is the branch of microeconomics that relates preferences to consumption expenditures and to consumer demand curves.

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Demand curve

A demand curve is a graph depicting the inverse demand function, a relationship between the price of a certain commodity (the y-axis) and the quantity of that commodity that is demanded at that price (the x-axis).

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Economics

Economics is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

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Ersatz good

An ersatz good is a substitute good, especially one that is considered inferior to the good it replaces. Inferior good and ersatz good are goods (economics).

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French fries

French fries (North American English & British English), and chips (British and other national varieties), finger chips (Indian English), french-fried potatoes, or simply fries are batonnet or allumette-cut deep-fried potatoes of disputed origin from Belgium or France.

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Frozen meal

A frozen meal (also called TV dinner in Canada and US), prepackaged meal, ready-made meal, ready meal (UK), frozen dinner, and microwave meal is ultra-processed food portioned for an individual.

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Giffen good

In microeconomics and consumer theory, a Giffen good is a product that people consume more of as the price rises and vice versa, violating the law of demand. Inferior good and Giffen good are goods (economics).

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Great Famine (Ireland)

The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (an Gorta Mór), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and subsequently had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole.

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Greg Mankiw

Nicholas Gregory Mankiw (born February 3, 1958) is an American macroeconomist who is currently the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University.

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Hamburger

A hamburger, or simply a burger, is a dish consisting of fillings—usually a patty of ground meat, typically beef—placed inside a sliced bun or bread roll.

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Indifference curve

In economics, an indifference curve connects points on a graph representing different quantities of two goods, points between which a consumer is indifferent.

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Instant noodles

Instant noodles, or instant ramen, is a type of food consisting of noodles sold in a precooked and dried block with flavoring powder and/or seasoning oil.

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International Potato Center

The International Potato Center (known as CIP from its Spanish-language name Centro Internacional de la Papa) is a research facility based in Lima, Peru, that seeks to reduce poverty and achieve food security on a sustained basis in developing countries through scientific research and related activities on potato, sweet potato, other root and tuber crops, and on the improved management of natural resources in the Andes and other mountain areas.

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Kuznets curve

The Kuznets curve expresses a hypothesis advanced by economist Simon Kuznets in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Law of demand

In microeconomics, the law of demand is a fundamental principle which states that there is an inverse relationship between price and quantity demanded.

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Normal good

In economics, a normal good is a type of a good which experiences an increase in demand due to an increase in income, unlike inferior goods, for which the opposite is observed. Inferior good and normal good are goods (economics).

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Payday loan

A payday loan (also called a payday advance, salary loan, payroll loan, small dollar loan, short term, or cash advance loan) is a short-term unsecured loan, often characterized by high interest rates.

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Pizza

Pizza is an Italian dish typically consisting of a flat base of leavened wheat-based dough topped with tomato, cheese, and other ingredients, baked at a high temperature, traditionally in a wood-fired oven.

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Potato

The potato is a starchy root vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world.

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Price elasticity of demand

A good's price elasticity of demand (E_d, PED) is a measure of how sensitive the quantity demanded is to its price.

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Rail transport

Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails.

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Rent-to-own

Rent-to-own, also known as rental purchase or rent-to-buy, is a type of legally documented transaction under which tangible property, such as furniture, consumer electronics, motor vehicles, home appliances, engagement rings, and real property, is leased in exchange for a weekly or monthly payment, with the option to purchase at some point during the agreement.

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Robert Giffen

Sir Robert Giffen (22 July 1837 – 12 April 1910) was a Scottish statistician and economist.

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Substitute good

In microeconomics, substitute goods are two goods that can be used for the same purpose by consumers. Inferior good and substitute good are goods (economics).

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Substitution effect

In economics and particularly in consumer choice theory, the substitution effect is one component of the effect of a change in the price of a good upon the amount of that good demanded by a consumer, the other being the income effect.

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Supply and demand

In microeconomics, supply and demand is an economic model of price determination in a market.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferior_good

Also known as Down-market, Downmarket, Inferior goods, Low End, Low-end market.