Even though both the income and substitution effect result from price changes, the income effect of a price change works like a change in income; meaning, one's consumption changes as it would if income had actually changed. Whether a good is considered normal or inferior by the consumer will determine how the income effect will alter consumption.
Through careful graphical economic analysis, we can examine
each of these effects separately.
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