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Comment by isaacfrond

Reddit explains the difference thus:

"Induced demand": The highway is expanded such that it only takes me 15 minutes to get downtown instead of 45, so I go downtown more.

Jevson paradox: The highway is expanded such that it only takes 15 minutes to get from the suburbs to my office instead of 45, so I move to the suburbs.

So one is movement along the demand curve, while the other is a movement of the demand curve.

https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/oo2s48/that_o...

parent isaacfrond 1 year ago

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