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.
(i) Measurement of Elasticity on a Linear Demand Curve: The price elasticity of demand can also be measured at any point on the demand curve. If the demand curve is linear (straight line), it has a unitary elasticity at the mid point. The total revenue is maximum at this point.