new journalism and new world order
and the times they are a changing. let's make sure they do.
"a basic dictum of microeconomics is that competition drives the price of a good or service down to the marginal cost of the marginal producer. many seem to disbelieve this because they see profit from many producers, but this is generally always because they have some form of pricing power or cost advantage that the marginal producer does not. under assumptions of “perfect competition” as laid out in econ 101, such advantages do not exist. but, obviously, these “perfect” conditions rarely exist in full form. in essence there are 5 requirements:
- many sellers (no monopoly/oligopoly)
- many buyers (no monopsony)
- homogeneous goods
- perfect information (about production capability and market participants)
- free and costless entry and exit to markets
any market that even modestly approaches this will see a remorseless
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