Giffen goods are somewhat complicated. In order to understand giffen goods, it is necessary to understand the income and substitution effects of a price change (covered in Consumer Choice.)

   For now, it is enough to realize that such goods may exist and that if they do they are very inferior, so much so that they can have upward sloping demand curves.

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