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Perfect competition

A perfectly competitive market has many small firms selling identical products, with free entry and full information. No single firm can influence the price — they are all price takers.

Key ideas

  • Firms produce where price equals marginal cost.
  • In the long run, free entry drives economic profit to zero.
  • It's a benchmark for efficiency, rarely seen exactly in the real world.

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