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Welcome: Why Does Anything Cost What It Costs?
Why does a coffee cost $3.50 — not $1, not $10? Nobody sets that price alone. Buyers and sellers set it together, and you're about to see how.
In this lesson you'll:
- build a demand curve from 24 real buyers,
- build a supply curve from 24 cups of coffee,
- find the market price — and see why markets drift towards it,
- predict what news, bad weather and price rules do to a market.
About 45 minutes · no maths beyond reading a chart · your phone or laptop.
Our market all lesson: Saturday coffee at the Maple Hill farmers' market. Each step builds on the one before. When you finish a step, press Done to move on.