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Monopoly

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A monopoly market will be said to exist when there is one seller and many buyers of a homogeneous commodity. Because of this dominance of the market by one seller, we shall discover that a monopolist has power to fix the price for the product he sells.

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© 1977 W. J. L. Ryan and D. W. Pearce

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Ryan, W.J.L., Pearce, D.W. (1977). Monopoly. In: Price Theory. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17334-1_13

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