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Many Buyers and Sellers 6
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An Individual Firm’s Demand Curve 16
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Exhibit 7. 1: Market and Individual Firm Demand Curves in a Perfectly Competitive Market 19
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Profit Maximization 26
Total Revenue 27
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Short-Run Profits and Losses 42
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Evaluating Economic Losses in the Short Run 48
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Exhibit 7. 9: The Firm’s Short-Run Supply Curve 58
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Exhibit 7. 10: Deriving the Short-Run Market Supply Curve 60
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Long-Run Equilibrium 64
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Exhibit 7. 11: Profits Disappear with Entry 68
Exhibit 7. 12: Losses Disappear with Exit 69
The Long‑Run Equilibrium for the Competitive Firm 70
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Exhibit 7. 13: The Long-Run Competitive Equilibrium 73
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Long-Run Supply 77
A Constant-Cost Industry 78
A Constant-Cost Industry 79
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Exhibit 7. 14: Demand Increase in a Constant-Cost Industry 81
Exhibit 7. 14: Demand Increase in a Constant-Cost Industry 82
Exhibit 7. 14: Demand Increase in a Constant-Cost Industry 83
An Increasing-Cost Industry 84
An Increasing-Cost Industry 85
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A Decreasing-Cost Industry 88
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Perfect Competition and Economic Efficiency 90
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Perfect Competition and Economic Efficiency 92
Exhibit 7. 15: Allocative Efficiency and Perfect Competition 93
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