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LAISSEZ FAIRE: A french term that translates into "leave us alone." It has become the rallying cry for many business leaders of the second estate who oppose government intervention, regulation, or even taxation. It's based on the belief that markets alone can achieve an efficient allocation of our resources. This laissez faire philosophy of should be contrasted directly with the philosophy of paternalism, which essentially says "Government needs to care for you because you can't care for yourself."
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Lesson 20: Oligopoly | Unit 4: Analysis
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- Collusion, of course, occurs when two or more firms in an oligopoly agree to set prices, control production, and otherwise act like a monopoly.
- To create a monopoly, two firms have to combine their two operations.
- The key consideration is both firms will seek to produce output using the firm with the lowest marginal cost.
- From a graphical standpoint, this is accomplished by horizontally summing the two marginal cost curves.
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ELASTICITY ALTERNATIVES, SUPPLY Five categories of the price elasticity of supply that reflect the entire range of the relative responsiveness of a change in quantity supplied to a change in price. These five alternatives--perfectly elastic, relatively elastic, unit elastic, relatively inelastic, and perfectly inelastic--are often illustrated by different supply curves. The price elasticity of demand is also reflected by five comparable alternatives.
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