Discuss the Walras theory of Tatonnement.
⇒Walras solved the process how the market achieves equilibrium by the mechanism of competition with the help of tatonnement refers to the process of trial and error by which a system with disequilibrium conditions moved towards equilibrium. Disequilibrium means that the quantity demanded and quantity supplied are not equilibrium. But this equilibrium situation slowly and gradually reached to the situation of equilibrium through the process of tatonnement i.e. trial and error method. When the sellers cry of prices and announces quantities again and again until the equilibrium price level is reached i.e. in that situation the quantity and the price reaches to an equilibrium position so tatonnement means trial and error method of announcing price again and again until the equilibrium is reached.
Walras discuss the process of tatonnement not only in a single market but also in the system as a whole suppose all the prices accept in one market are in equilibrium. The price in market A will change in accordance with the position of access demand but this will distribute the equilibrium in other markets because the prices in other market are in equilibrium only with reference to the price in market A that has now changed. Accordingly, we have to made price adjustments in other market. Again this will change in the price of market A and so on. In this way the system reaches towards general equilibrium.
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