Artificial demand constitues demand for something that in the abscence of exposure to the vehicle of creating demand, would not exist. It has controversial applications in microeconomics (pump and dump strategies) and advertising. Synonyms for "artifical demand" include "fake demand" and "false need". Vehicles of creating artificial demand can include mass media advertising, which can create demand for goods, services, political policies or platforms, and other entities. The supply and demand model describes how prices vary as a result of a balance between product availability at each price (supply) and the desires of those with purchasing power at each price (demand). ... Microeconomics (very small economics) is a social science which involves study of the economic distribution of production and income among individual consumers, firms, and industries. ... The financial fraud known as pump and dump (aka Stock Dump) involves artificially inflating the price of a stock or other security through promotion, in order to sell at the inflated price. ... Generally speaking, advertising is the promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas, usually by an identified sponsor. ... Mass media is a term used to denote, as a class, that section of the media specifically conceived and designed to reach a very large audience (typically at least as large as the whole population of a nation state). ... Good. ... Services are: plural of service Tertiary sector of industry IRC services Web services the name of a first-class cricket team in India This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... A policy is a plan of action for tackling issues. ... A political platform is a list of the principles which a political party supports in order to appeal to the general public for the purpose of having said partys candidates voted into office. ...