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QUANTITY DEMANDED: The specific (maximum) quantity of a good or service that buyers are willing and able to buy at a specific demand price. The emphasis here is on specific. Quantity demanded and demand price form a specific pair of numbers.
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Lesson 19: Monopolistic Competition | Unit 5: Evaluation
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In this unit, you should have learned about:- The bad of monopolistic competition, which is inefficiency and excess capacity.
- The good of monopolistic competition, which is product differentiation and the satisfaction of differing preferences.
- Why government intervention could make monopolistic competition efficient, but that such intervention is seldom undertaken.
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MARGINAL REVENUE CURVE, MONOPOLY A curve that graphically represents the relation between the marginal revenue received by a monopoly for selling its output and the quantity of output sold. Because a monopoly is a price maker and faces a negatively-sloped demand curve, its marginal revenue curve is also negatively sloped and lies below its average revenue (and demand) curve. A monopoly maximizes profit by producing the quantity of output found at the intersection of the marginal revenue curve and marginal cost curve.
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During the American Revolution, the price of corn rose 10,000 percent, the price of wheat 14,000 percent, the price of flour 15,000 percent, and the price of beef 33,000 percent.
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"Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment." -- Rita Mae Brown ‚ Writer
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