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.
The elasticity of demand (Ed) , also referred to as the price elasticity of demand, measures how responsive demand is to changes in a price of a given good. More precisely, it is the percent change in quantity demanded relative to a one percent change in price, holding all else constant (ceteris paribus).