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- From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: FDA still at large
- Message-ID: <15935@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 17:25:05 GMT
- References: <92211.202315DGS4@psuvm.psu.edu> <1992Jul30.204421.8260@gateway.novell.com> <92212.195618DGS4@psuvm.psu.edu>
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- In article <92212.195618DGS4@psuvm.psu.edu> DGS4@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
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- >>7) Insulin and eyeglasses would cost more if less people wanted to
- >> buy them.
- >
- >Funny, but all the free-market economics that I learned says that insulin and
- >eyeglasses cost moreif MORE people want them. You are missing a few ceteris
- >parabus assumtions in your analysis.
- >
- That's only true if the demand exceeds the supply. If it is a manufactured
- article of which there is no shortage, increased demand will lower the
- cost, due to the economies of scale. We could supply insulin to
- 1000 times the people who currently use it if they wanted it, and
- the costs would go down. Something like rare stamps or real estate,
- which is not easily manufactured, will go up in price with demand.
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- Gordon Banks N3JXP | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and
- geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon."
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