Supply of Beer


Economists treat supply symmetrically as demand. That is, we treat supply (also) as a relationship between price and the quantity supplied. Usually, the relation is direct (upward sloping), rather than inverse.

Here is the supply schedule corresponding to the beer demand given before.

Supply of Beer, 1960

price,
cents/gal.
Quantity
supplied,
millions
of gals.


50 0
60 0
70 0
80 1304.4
90 2894
100 4483.6
110 6073.2
120 7662.8

Diagram

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