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Monopoly Profit Maximisation.

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Monopoly Profit Maximising (Pricing where MC=MR)

Question: Suppose that marginal costs at the profit maximising quantity were lower than the price at that quantity.What can you say about the welfare properties of such a situation.
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Draw the perfect competition diagram either in that one or by the side of it and look at what happens to consumer and producer surplus. Some will be loss, which we call dead-weight loss, and producers will take some of the consumer surplus for themselves.

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