Market Clearing

In economics, market clearing refers to either

  1. a simplifying assumption made by the new classical school that markets always go to where the quantity supplied equals the quantity demanded; or
  2. the process of getting there via price adjustment.

Read more about Market Clearing:  On Market Clearing

Famous quotes containing the words market and/or clearing:

    “Talk of a divinity in man! Look at the teamster on the highway, wending to market by day or night; does any divinity stir within him? His highest duty to fodder and water his horses! What is his destiny to him compared with the shipping interests?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)