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Date: 2024-10-11 Page is: DBtxt001.php list0300-Competition-1

Definitions for TrueValueMetrics
Competition

A market based economy assumes robust competition ... but a profit maximizing rich economy with a high concentration of economic power never has much effective competition.

In contrast a poor economy with disorganized ... haphazard ... supply, and with a multitude of individual buyers is a market economy, and the market efficiently reflects market equilibrium.

Many of the characteristics of a modern economy reduce competition:

  • Regulation makes it more difficult to have many different items in the market to do the same function ... and competition is reduced

  • Intellectual property sometimes gives a product a monopoly position ... whether or not it is justified

  • Branding makes the market ineffective ... an identical product that is unbranded does not compete as a similar product, but as something that is different. This diverts profit to the brand ... but does nothing to the inherent value of the product.



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