The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics cover
The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics
by Rod Hill
ISBN: 1842779397
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vaidhy · 2020-10-16 · Original thread
While supply and demand is a good model, it is at the end of day, still just a model. Even as a model, it is not easy to apply to real-life situations. Measuring supply and demand is not easy. Constraints on supply and demand change all the time. Complements and supplements change all the time. Second and third order effects which take a long time to show, but have massive impact cannot be easily predicted and measured. Finally, the supply and demand logic requires a perfect market, which does not exist.

It is great model when you have perfect information. I would like to present the Economics Anti-Textbook - https://www.amazon.com/Economics-Anti-Textbook-Critical-Thin... for a more nuanced approach.

[Edited for missing a word]