The Great Upheaval. A Spontaneous Eruption. It started with a 10% pay cut. When leaders of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company ordered this second reduction in less than eight months, railroad workers in Martinsburg, West Virginia decided they had had enough.
According to this method, âprice elasticity of demand is the ratio of percentage change in the amount demanded to the percentage change in price of the commodity.â. It is also known as the Percentage Method, Flux Method, Ratio Method, and Arithmetic Method.
Elasticity The price elasticity of demand measures the sensitivity of the quantity demanded to changes in the price. Demand is inelastic if it does not respond much to price changes, and elastic if demand changes a lot when the price changes. â¢ Necessities tend to have inelastic demand. â¢ Luxuries tend to have elastic demand.