He took a breath and looked at the book. Instead of reciting the textbook, he thought about the bakery down the street that had raised its prices for cinnamon rolls. "Well," he stammered, "if the rolls are too expensive, we go to the supermarket instead. So the bakery has to lower the price or make them better to get us back."
The next day, his teacher, Lyudmila Petrovna—a woman who could smell a copied answer from the hallway—called him to the board. He took a breath and looked at the book
"Anton," she said, tapping her pen against the textbook. "Your homework was... sophisticated. Tell the class, in your own words, how the 'invisible hand' of the market affects our local bakery." " he stammered