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"If real world markets can be made to resemble more closely the economists model of perfect competition, economic efficiency will improve"  

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"If real world markets can be made to resemble more closely the economists model of perfect competition, economic efficiency will improve" Perfect competition would exist when there are a large number of small firms all producing a homogenous product, and not one firm in the market has monopoly power to amend prices. These companies are competing against each other on the production costs and also the retail price. For an industry to be perfectly competitive then several assumptions need to be made these are that there are a very large number of buyers and sellers and none of the buyers or sellers can influence the ruling market price by their actions. All the buyers and sellers possess perfect market information and the goods they are providing are homogenous. Finally there are few barriers to entry and exit of the market. I use the term "would exist" simple because an industry...

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