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=Identify factors that cause changes in market supply and demand.=

//Focus Question: What factors affect supply and demand?//


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Lesson Plans:
 * Goal 8: Supply and Demand Changes - Slideshare
 * To Buy or Not To Buy: Supply and Demand Lesson Plan - from EconEdLink
 * Supply and Demand: Lesson from Toy Fads - From EconEdLink
 * Exploration in Economic Demand: Part 1
 * Demand and Supply Analysis and Problems - Notre Dame University

Videos explaining supply and demand:
 * Introduction to Supply and Demand
 * Slightly different explanation

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Apples

 * All About Apples: Some History, Science Friday**
 * **15,000 varieties of apples were once grown in the United States**
 * **Now 9 out of ten apples we eat come from just 12 varieties**

Drugs
Supply and demand issues affect more than just the economic lives of people. Social and cultural needs and problems can often be examined through the lens of supply and demand.
 * One such issue is that of illegal drugs and the problems that attend their production, distribution, and use. To learn more about this issue, link here

There have many cases of illegal manipulations of supply and demand. These manipulations usually have the end goal of fixing a price for the benefit of one or more companies or corporations.
 * A famous case involved the Archer Daniels Midland Corporation (ADM) in the 1990s. ADM was accused of fixing the prices of lysine, an amino acid; citric acid, a widely used flavoring agent; and high fructose corn syrup. The book __Rats in the Grain__ details this case.
 * Link here to learn more about this case

Quinoa is a grain that is grown in the altiplano region of Bolivia and Peru. This grain has become among Americans and Europeans in recent years.
 * Link here to read a story that deals with the nuanced ways in which this new demand is affecting the indigenous farmers who live in the region

"Men Create the Demand; Women Are the Supply: Lecture on Sexual Exploitation". Donna M. Hughes, University of Rhode Island

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Supply and Demand in the Atlantic Slave Trade. Be sure to explore the links on the left side of the page for more essays on factors affecting supply and demand in the slave trade.
 * **For more, link to special topic page on The Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade**