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Understanding Monopolies in Economics
With this free online course on understanding monopolies, you will study market situations where one producer or a group of producers acting in concert controls the supply of goods or a service. Learn about how they can prevent the entry of new suppliers into a market, and exert influence by keeping prices high and restricting output, and how they tend to show little or no responsiveness to the needs of their customers.
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Understanding Monopolies in Economics
Find out about the various economic and financial implications of monopolies existing within any business sector.
With this free online course on understanding monopolies, you will study market situations where one producer or a group of producers acting in concert controls the supply of goods or a service. Learn about how they can prevent the entry of new suppliers into a market, and exert influence by keeping prices high and restricting output, and how they tend to show little or no responsiveness to the needs of their customers.
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Introduction to Monopolies in Economics
This module covers what a monopoly is in the world of economics, how it occurs and how it operates. During this module, you will learn how monopolies optimize prices. How to use graphs and formulas to calculate the optimal supply for maximum profit. This course compares and contrasts oligopolies, monopolistic competition and perfect competition and introduces economic terms and concepts such as marginal revenue, opportunity cost and economic profit.
1.Learning Outcomes
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2.Monopoly Basics
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3.Review of Revenue and Cost Graphs for a Monopoly
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4.Monopolist Optimizing Price (part 1)- Total Revenue
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5.Monopolist Optimizing Price (part 2)- Marginal Revenue
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6.Monopolist Optimizing Price (part 3)- Dead Weight Loss
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7.Optional Calculus Proof to Show that MR has Twice Slope of Demand
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8.Yes Oligopolies and Monopolistic Competition
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9.Monopolistic Competition and Economic Profit
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10.Lesson Summary
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