Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
The law of supply and demand is often misunderstood and misconstrued, and it has downstream effects for our understanding of economics.
In this video, Learn Liberty Basics establishes supply and demand as ever-changing RELATIONSHIPS, not constants. We also lay out some of the early history of our idea of supply and demand.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Supply and Demand = Relationships
0:52 A Sour Example
1:49 A Brief History of Supply and Demand
3:31 Supply and Demand Applied
4:39 Natural Gas Shortages in the 60s and 70s
Be sure to check out the Learn Liberty Blog, too! You can read more about the tendency to understand economics as just charts and graphs here:
learnliberty.org/blog/economics-is-not-just-graphs-and-charts
And for supplemental background viewing on supply and demand, check out our haiku: youtube.com/watch?v=tXt_3H3e2bg
LEARN LIBERTY:
Your resource for exploring the ideas of a free society. We tackle big questions about what makes a society free or prosperous and how we can improve the world we live in. Watch more at learnliberty.org/.
The law of supply and demand is often misunderstood and misconstrued, and it has downstream effects for our understanding of economics.
In this video, Learn Liberty Basics establishes supply and demand as ever-changing RELATIONSHIPS, not constants. We also lay out some of the early history of our idea of supply and demand.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Supply and Demand = Relationships
0:52 A Sour Example
1:49 A Brief History of Supply and Demand
3:31 Supply and Demand Applied
4:39 Natural Gas Shortages in the 60s and 70s
Be sure to check out the Learn Liberty Blog, too! You can read more about the tendency to understand economics as just charts and graphs here:
learnliberty.org/blog/economics-is-not-just-graphs-and-charts
And for supplemental background viewing on supply and demand, check out our haiku: youtube.com/watch?v=tXt_3H3e2bg
LEARN LIBERTY:
Your resource for exploring the ideas of a free society. We tackle big questions about what makes a society free or prosperous and how we can improve the world we live in. Watch more at learnliberty.org/.
