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PERFECT COMPETITION, LONG-RUN ADJUSTMENT: A perfectly competitive industry undertakes a two-part adjustment to equilibrium in the long run. One is the adjustment of each perfectly competitive firm to the appropriate factory size that maximizes long-run profit. The other is the entry of firms into the industry or exit of firms out of the industry, to eliminate economic profit or economic loss. The end result of this long-run adjustment is a multi-faceted equilibrium condition that price is equal to marginal cost and average cost (both short run and long run).
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Lesson Contents
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Unit 1: Price Taker |
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Unit 2: Short-Run Output |
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Unit 3: Doing Graphs |
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Unit 4: Long-Run Equilibrium |
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Perfect Competition
- The first unit of this lesson, Price Taker, begins this study with a look at the general structure of a perfectly competitive market.
- In the second unit, Short-Run Output, we take a look at the short-run production decision faced by a perfectly competitive firm based on the cost and revenue numbers.
- The third unit, Doing Graphs, then looks at the short-run production decision faced by a perfectly competitive firm using a graphical analysis of cost and revenue.
- In the fourth unit, Long-Run Equilibrium, we examine the nature of long-run adjustment by a perfectly competition industry when all inputs are variable.
- The fifth and final unit, Evaluation, then closes this lesson by considering the pros and cons of a perfectly competitive industry.
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SCARCITY A pervasive condition of human existence that results because society has unlimited wants and needs, but limited resources used for their satisfaction. This fundamental condition is the common thread that binds all of the topics studied in economics.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at an auction trying to buy either a cross-cut paper shredder or a birthday greeting card for your father. Be on the lookout for telephone calls from long-lost relatives.
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Before 1933, the U.S. dime was legal as payment only in transactions of $10 or less.
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"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have." -- Fredrick Koeing
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