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The Cobweb Theory is an economic model developed to explain the dynamic characteristics of supply and demand equilibrium in markets where production is subject to time lags, such as agricultural products. According to the theory, producers make production decisions based not on current period prices but on prices from the previous period. This leads to cyclical fluctuations in price and quantity. The theory derives its name from the spiral pattern that emerges in price-quantity graphs, which res