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Main Forms Of Market

ICSE · Class 12 · Economics

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Key Topics to Revise

1

Meaning of Market

  • In economics, a market means the whole region in which buyers and sellers of a commodity are in free contact with one another and the price of the same good tends to equality quickly.
  • A market does not depend on a fixed place. Contact may happen through letters, telephone, telegrams, e-mail, Internet, or middlemen.
  • A market has four essentials: area or region, commodity, buyers and sellers, and competition.
2

Forms of Market Structure

  • The main market forms are perfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and monopsony.
  • Perfect competition has many buyers and sellers, homogeneous products, and price-taking firms.
  • Monopoly has a single seller, no close substitutes, entry barriers, and price-making power.
3

Perfect Competition and Pure Competition

  • A firm under perfect competition is a price-taker, not a price-maker.
  • Under perfect competition, the industry is the price-maker while the firm is the price-taker.
  • Perfect competition is a wider concept than pure competition.
4

Monopoly

  • Monopoly has a single seller.
  • There are no close substitutes for the monopolist's product.
  • The monopolist is both the firm and the industry.

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A market is not onlyPerfect competition is a market formPure competition is narrower than perfectMonopoly is a market formPrice discrimination means selling the same

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