Perfect Competition and the Creativity of the Market

The complete theory of competition cannot be known because it is an open-ended theory; it is always possible that a new range of problems will be posed in this framework, and then, no matter how well-developed the theory was with respect to the earlier range of problems, it may require extensive ela...

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Competition
Creativity
Economic competition
Economic rent
Economic theory
Efficient markets
Marginal products
Opportunistic behavior
Perfect competition
Socialism
Studies
Trade gains
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