Equilibrium in a perfectly competitive market results in the greatest amount of economic surplus, or total benefit to society, from the production of a good.
Why, then, did Joseph Schumpeter argue that an economy may benefit more from firms that have market power than from firms that are perfectly competitive?
Question 2
In many business situations one firm will act first, and then other firms will respond. To help analyze these types of situations economists use
A) follow-the-leader-games. B) sequential games.
C) retaliation games. D) bargaining games.