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REALISM OF PERFECT COMPETITION: Perfect competition is an idealized market structure that does NOT exist in the real world. While some real world industries might come relatively close to a one or two of the four key characteristics of perfect competition, none matches all four sufficiently that we can declare a perfectly competitively industry. Some industries come close on the large number of small firms and the identical product characteristics. A few industries have relatively good, although not perfect, information about prices and technology. However, almost all industries fall far short of the perfect mobility characteristics.
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CHANGE IN QUANTITY SUPPLIED A movement along a given supply curve caused by a change in supply price. The only factor that can cause a change in quantity supplied is price. A related, but distinct, concept is a change in supply.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a going out of business sale trying to buy either a coffee cup commemorating the first day of winter or a video game player. Be on the lookout for florescent light bulbs that hum folk songs from the sixties. Your Complete Scope
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Much of the $15 million used by the United States to finance the Louisiana Purchase from France was borrowed from European banks.
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"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. " -- Albert Einstein, physicist
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VIR Variable Interest Rate
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