When the demand for potatoes at the current price exceeds supply, the price of potatoes rises, signaling scarcity.

Senior Indian executives whose businesses require them to recruit competent scientists or engineers complain that demand for such talent vastly exceeds the supply.

Demand or Supply?

World demand and supply

Monetarists insist that economies experience inflation when money supply growth persistently exceeds output growth.

But the scale of the price spike exceeds normal demand and supply factors, pointing to the role of speculation and underscoring the need for policy action to clean up the oil market.

As with economics, demand stimulates supply.

The proximate cause of price growth since mid 2007 is the appearance of production bottlenecks as domestic demand exceeds supply in an increasing number of sectors, such as power generation, transportation, and intermediate goods industries.

CHICAGO Economics is all about demand and supply.

And when supply is equal to demand, everything's fine, but when supply falls, in this case of oxygen, and demand stays high, you're dead.

But when supply is less than demand, prices rise sharply.

The question that will be a mystery to them is why so many economists of our day did not know how to say supply and demand, supply and demand.

In competitive markets, the law of demand and supply ensures that eventually , in the long run, the demand for labor will equal the supply there will be no unemployment.

Trade is the transmission belt through which supply adjusts to demand.

In addition, supply and demand vary widely from region to region.

Long term growth depends not on foreign demand, but on domestic supply.

Eventually, better labor force supply will create healthier and more sustainable demand.

Low inflation resulted from a combination of cheap supply and low demand.

Where demand exceeded supply, private education voucher recipients were selected by lottery.

But supply and demand side factors jointly influence the rate of diffusion.

Thus, transferability implies matching demand with supply for knowledge, expertise and experience.

Distribution systems are essential for matching supply and demand in tourism services.

If you relieved the excess demand for financial assets, you also cured the excess supply of goods and services (the shortfall of aggregate demand) and the excess supply of labor (mass unemployment).

Fifth, in the long run, a weaker dollar decreases supply and increases demand.

The supply of credit, in other words, resulted from the demand for credit.

Demand for and supply of opiates used to meet medical and scientific needs

The world may enter a new era in which investment demand exceeds desired savings which means that real interest rates must rise.

Monetarists insist that economies experience inflation when money supply growth persistently exceeds output growth. That has not happened yet, so inflation has been postponed.

The government must ensure that the money supply matches the full employment level of money demand, and that the supply of safe savings vehicles in which investors can park their wealth also meets demand.

For both, reducing the imbalance between aggregate supply and aggregate demand required, first and foremost, preserving the banking system and preserving the banking system required boosting aggregate demand to bring it closer to aggregate supply.

Representatives also reported on their national strategies to reduce illicit drug supply and demand.

By contrast, a gap between supply and demand when the corresponding excess demand is for financial assets is a recipe for economic meltdown.

When production exceeds domestic demand, producers are compelled to expand exports, creating an export oriented, capital intensive industrial structure that supports rapid economic growth.

True, some extra demand will go abroad, but so will some of the extra supply.

The result of a decrease in supply and an increase in demand is higher prices.

Ongoing private and public debt deleveraging has kept global demand growth below that of supply.

Again, attention should be directed at both ends of the chain of supply and demand.

It is also here where there is more supply and demand of health care services.

Further research will be carried out into demand and supply in terms of women's refuges.

Demand led funding' provided via parents will replace supply led funding' by the municipal authorities.

The mismatch between labour market demand and supply is partly a result of educational policies.

The idea was to move from the supply driven approach to the demand driven approach.

Part time work was usually a matter of choice, but demand for it exceeded supply.

The implication of this was clear. If you relieved the excess demand for financial assets, you also cured the excess supply of goods and services (the shortfall of aggregate demand) and the excess supply of labor (mass unemployment).

BERKELEY It is said that the early nineteenth century British economist J.R. McCulloch originated the old joke that the only training a parrot needs to be a passable political economist is one phrase supply and demand, supply and demand.