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X-INEFFICIENCY: Cost that is higher than it needs to be because a firm is operating inefficiently. This is most often seen for firms that have a great deal of market control, especially monopoly. The lack of competition allows a business to pad it's expenses, hire unneeded employees (like relatives), goof off instead of working, and all sorts of other things that lessen production and increase cost. The business is not penalized for these actions, because market control allows the company to extract whatever price is needed to cover cost.
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Lesson 20: Oligopoly | Unit 1: Intro
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- Lets start with a definition:
- Oligopoly is a market structure characterized by a small number of relatively large firms, producing either identical products or products with slight differences, with restricted entry and exit, and limitations on information.
- Most major corporations operate in oligopoly markets.
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OLIGOPOLY, REALISM Real world markets are heavily populated by oligopoly. About half of all output produced in the U.S. economy each year is done so by oligopoly firms. Other industrialized nations can make a similar claim. Oligopoly markets arise in a wide assortment different industries, ranging from manufacturing to retail trade to resource extraction to financial services.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at the confiscated property police auction seeking to buy either a birthday gift for your aunt or a pair of leather sandals that won't cause blisters. Be on the lookout for spoiled cheese hiding under your bed hatching conspiracies against humanity. Your Complete Scope
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A thousand years before metal coins were developed, clay tablet "checks" were used as money by the Babylonians.
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"If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. " -- Lance Armstrong, bicycle racer
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SWIFT Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications
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