Abstract
The article builds on and extends two earlier teaching notes on the enhancement of undergraduate microeconomics to encompass quality considerations in consumer choice and market responses to those preferences. This enhanced framework is then applied to an analysis of market disruption, providing a credible and accessible path for predicting threats to higher end industry leaders from lower end competitors.
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