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Why is perfect competition often described as the ideal market structure?
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Saulius Muliolis
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The motive is to give government regulators a rational justification to intervene in markets in order to make them free. Perfect competition is a model of the economy that sets up an unrealistic set of conditions, including undifferentiated goods, a large number of small firms, equal conditions of production and equal production costs. Because no market could possibly meet these artificial conditions, any excuse can be made for government regulation to intervene, to knock down any superior competitor, in order to make markets "free". In reality, the only condition needed to make a market free is
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The motive is to give government regulators a rational justification to intervene in markets in order to make them free. Perfect competition is a model of the economy that sets up an unrealistic set of conditions, including undifferentiated goods, a large number of small firms, equal conditions of production and equal production costs.