True: Antoine Augustin Cournot first developed a mathematical model of supply and demand in his 1838 Researches on the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth., The price was set by the most expensive price, that is, the price at the margin, according to the marginalist school of thought., Alfred Marshall and Léon Walras looked at the equilibrium point where the demand and supply curves crossed., The market is in equilibrium when the price regulates the quantity supplied by producers and the quantity demanded by the consumers., An improvement in technology is as important for increasing the supplied quantity of a good as a reduction in input prices., Government regulates demand and supply by imposing ceiling prices (maximum prices) and floor prices (minimum prices) and adding its own demand to the demand of the private sector., False: The phrase “supply and demand” was first used by Adam Smith in his 1776 book The Wealth of Nations., Demand is the quantity of a good that sellers wish to sell at each price., An increase in the price of a substitute good will decrease the demanded quantity., As consumer income is increased, demand for an inferior good will increase.,

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