Download A supply schedule is a tabular depiction of the

A supply schedule is a tabular depiction of the relationship between
price and quantity supplied, represented graphically as a supply curve.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES [ edit ]
Describe the relationship between the supply schedule and the supply curve.
Explain the price to quantity relationship exhibited in the supply curve.
KEY POINTS [ edit ]
The supply curve plots the quantity that is willingly supplied at any given price.
The individual supply curves can be summed by quantity provided at a specific price to achieve
an aggregate supply curve.
The supply curve is upward sloping in the short run.
TERMS [ edit ]
equilibrium
The condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced, resulting in no net change.
aggregate
A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a
whole.
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Supply is the amount of some product that producers are willing and able to sell at a given
price, all other factors being held constant. In general, supply depicts a positive relationship
between the price of a good or service and the quantity that the producer is willing to supply:
if a supplier believes it can sell the product for more, it will want to make more of the
product. As a result, as the price of a good or service increases, suppliers increase the
quantity available for purchase.
A supply schedule is a table that shows the
relationship between the price of a good
and the quantity supplied. The supply
curve is a graphical depiction of the
supply schedule that illustrates that
relationship between the price of a good
and the quantity supplied .
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The Supply Schedule and Supply Curve
The supply curve is a graphical depiction of the price to quantity pairings presented in a supply schedule.
The supply schedule is a table view of the relationship between the price suppliers are willing to sell a
specific quantity of a good or service.
The supply curves of individual suppliers can be summed to determine aggregate supply.
One can use the supply schedule to do this: for a given price, find the corresponding quantity
supplied for each individual supply schedule and then sum these quantities to provide a
group or aggregate supply. Plotting the summation of individual quantities per each price
will produce an aggregate supply curve.
In theory, in the long run the aggregate supply curve will not be upward sloping but will
instead be vertical, consistent with a fixed supply level. This is due to the
underlying assumptionthat in the long run, supply of a good only depends on the fixed level
of capital, technology, and natural resourcesavailable.
The supply curve provides one side of the price­to­quantity relationship that ensures a
functional market. The other component is demand. When the supply and demand curvesare
graphed together they will intersect at a point that represents the market equilibrium ­ the
point where supply equals demand and the market clears.