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Suppose hamburger is an inferior good, but not a Giffen good for a consumer. If the price of hamburgers increases, what happens?

          Suppose hamburger is an inferior good, but not a Giffen good for a consumer. If the price of hamburgers increases, what happens?
        

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Principles of Economics
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Gregory Mankiw 8th Edition
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00:01 Here we're talking about the idea of related goods, that is substitutes, right? so substitutes are things that replace and complements are things that go with.
00:12 So here we're asked to consider the demand for hamburgers.
00:17 So let's draw a demand curve.
00:19 A demand curve is a relationship between quantity and price, something like that.
00:23 There's a demand curve.
00:25 So the first of all, we know for one, the price of the price of the, the sub is going up, right? the price of the substitute is going up.
00:35 So let's try to connect the chains, right? the price of the sub going up.
00:40 So the price of the hot dog is going up.
00:44 This means that we expect the quantity of hot dogs to decline, right? because the demand curve for hot dogs slopes down.
00:54 And however, this means that the quantity of hamburgers should increase, right? this is the substitute relationship, the fact that they are going in opposite directions...
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