What defines an idealistic society? It could be where everyone is accepted, there are no social classes, or where no one is homeless or has to think about their next meal. In contrary, what defines a dystopian society? Kurt Vonnegut’s short story, Harrison Bergeron illustrates a dystopian society with total equality. The government achieves this status by authorizing handicaps for the citizens ensuring that nobody is smarter, better looking, or more athletic than anybody else, thus accomplishing…
There are four major types of competitive market structure, these include: Perfect competition, Monopolistic competition, Oligopoly and Monopoly. The competitive market structure an organisation belongs to is determined by the nature of their product, the number and size of other firms in the market and the entry and exit conditions of that market. The two organisations I will be comparing and contrasting are Tesco and Sainsbury’s which I believe belong to the Oligopoly market structure. The…
leave the market. The firm can leave the market without costing them heavily. 2) There is no fixing prices so the firms can compete with each other. 3) Firms can maximize the profit in the short run. 4) The products are identical and branded. 5) The perfect knowledge is available in this market. Examples of contestable market: There are many markets that try to enter the contestable market like the home banking and financial services, low cost domestic airline and electricity and gas…
1. INTRODUCTION: In class we have learned about the different market structures that exist in the world. They are basically divided into four types namely • Perfect competition • Monopoly • Monopolistic competition • Oligopoly The most prevalent type of market structure in today’s world are monopolistic and oligopolistic competition and in some cases monopoly. The article that I had chosen takes about the ongoing price war between the e-commerce giants of India; Flipkart and Amazon. I feel…
Free market economy is based on supply and demand, there is either no government involved or little government if any. Free market economy is also known as the market economy. In a market economy people have an advantage because they have more money. Not everyone agrees with the aspects of a free market economy. Everyone has their own opinion about it, some people think it shows inequality in the economy. Despite the negative opinions, free market economy has helped billions of people all over…
Perfect competition: Perfect competition is the name given to an industry or to a market characterized by a large number of buyers and sellers engaged in the purchase and sale of a homogeneous commodity , with perfect knowledge of market price and quantities There are some characteristics of perfect competition: 1. Large number of buyers and sellers : In the perfect competition , a large number of buyers and sellers exists exists. However the high population of buyers and sellers fail to affect…
Monopoly situation exists when there is a single supplier of a unique product that has no close substitute. For example, Sky had a monopoly over the live football coverage. According to the 1998 Competition Act, abuse of dominant power means that a firm can 'behave independently of competitive pressures'. (Source: economicshelp.org) P MC…
pple is a multinational company that has its headquarters in California, USA. With specialization in technology and technological products, it not only manufactures, but also markets media devices like laptops, phones, music players among others. Apple has managed to acquire numerous consumers worldwide most of whom are very loyal due to the quality of apple products. The nature of products that apple produces places it in the competitive Market types are classified according to the presence…
Monopolistic competition had first been identified in the 1930s by Edward Chamberlin and Joan Robinson. Monopolistic competition is a form of imperfect competition with no barriers to entry and many firms. This essay intends to analyse the impact of branding and innovation in a monopolistic coffee market with an analysis of its effects on short and long-run profits. This essay will then discuss how applicable theory is to the real-world with a focus on the competitive advantage gained from…
According to Ronald Coase, founder of the Coase Theorem; the Coase Theorem is a theory in legal and economics that affirms that when there are complete competitive markets with no transaction costs, an efficient set of inputs and outputs to and from production-optimal distribution is selected regardless of how property rights are divided. In addition to that, according to Investopedia, “the Coase theorem asserts that when property rights are involved, parties naturally follow the most efficient…