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Why is monopoly labeled least efficient while perfect competition is socially optimal?
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Monopoly sets P>MC, causing deadweight loss; PC is socially optimal.
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Both perfect competition and monopolistic competition earn zero long-run economic profit. Only which one is allocatively and productively efficient (output at ATC_min), while monopoly is least efficient?
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Perfect competition
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