Talk:Inferior good/Archives/2012

Merger with Downmarket

Someone has suggested merging this page with the article on "Downmarket", which I think would be a huge mistake. I'm currently a student in Micro and Macro and the concepts of Normal Good vs. Inferior Good, Substitute vs. Complement, Elastic vs. Inelastic, etc should be maintained separately from any (what sounds to me to be a Macro subject but maybe we'll eventually discuss this in Micro...) other articles such as "Downmarket". This will help to keep the fundamental concepts of Economics separate from their applications. In the applications of Economics pages they would then either give a quick summary of the concept, or refer with a link to the base article. For me, at least, this would make learning the concepts of Economics much easier. 71.197.114.54 (talk) 23:05, 7 January 2010 (UTC)Aryobrand

• Oppose - I oppose the merger for the same reasons as provided by User:71.197.114.54. (Ketabtoon (talk) 18:04, 7 February 2010 (UTC))
• Oppose - A downmarket good is almost certainly a superior good for some portion of the market. (As in there must be some point where an increase in income results in the increased purchasing of the downmarket good, hence it is a superior good at that income level.) These are different concepts. Jrincayc (talk) 12:21, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

In my experience of Bangladesh potatoes are *not* percieved as more desirable than rice, and would only be consumed as a staple in dire circumstances. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.202.245.78 (talk) 07:41, 31 March 2010 (UTC) Agreed. The merger of this two very distinct concept is a bad idea. Article coul dbe improved by more explicit description of the lines in the graph; the indifference curves are not even labeled as such. Robert Wyman, Yale Univ.

Merger with bad (economics)

It's been suggested that this be merged with bad (economics). They shouldn't be merged, they're really different ideas. CRETOG8(t/c) 23:44, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Opposing merger with Low-end market

These are two completely different topics.

A low-end market is a portion of a market for goods or services that is sold at a lower price than its more expensive equivalents or substitutes.

The term 'inferior good' describes a class of goods where an increase in price causes demand for the good to increase (rather than decrease, as would be the case for a 'normal' or 'ordinary' good).

This suggestion for a merge should be removed from the page header as it may confuse those coming to learn about inferior goods.

Jaredthomas1991 (talk) 12:13, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Jared (BComm majoring in Economics)