ECONOMICS (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In a market system, consumers decide what goods and services are produced by means of their purchases. If consumers want more of a good or service and are willing to pay for it, demand increases and the price of the good or service increases. Higher profits then attract new producers to the industry.

Detailed explanation-2: -In a market economy, the producer gets to decide what to produce, how much to produce, what to charge customers for those goods, and what to pay employees. These decisions in a free-market economy are influenced by the pressures of competition, supply, and demand.

Detailed explanation-3: -In a free-market (capitalist) economy, individuals own the factors of production: Businesses produce products. Consumers choose the products they prefer causing the companies that product them to make more profit.

Detailed explanation-4: -The consumer is the one who pays something to consume goods and services produced. As such, consumers play a vital role in the economic system of a nation. Without consumer demand, producers would lack one of the key motivations to produce: to sell to consumers.