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Invisible Hand in a Perfectly Competitive World

Simon Wakerley

27th February 2016

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A nice little animation that illustrates the market mechanism in a perfectly and imperfectly competitive world.

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Simon Wakerley

Sam Wakerley is a teacher of Economics at the British School Al Khubairat. He has led and taught economics for five years initially in Devon, UK and now overseas in the United Arab Emirates.

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