perfect competition

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noun

economics a market situation in which there exists a homogeneous product, freedom of entry, and a large number of buyers and sellers none of whom individually can affect price

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perfect competition

Maybe that's not perfect competition in the economic sense.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2018

The more closely the world can be made to resemble an ideal market governed only by perfect competition, the more law-like and “scientific” human behaviour, in the aggregate, becomes.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2017

In perfect competition, a business is so focused on today’s margins that it can’t possibly plan for a long-term future.

From Time ● Mar. 11, 2015

But the gasoline market is unusual for retail products to the extent to which it approximates a textbook case of perfect competition.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2012

Within each one of these industries perfect competition between the different employers will give him the value of the product which, in that business, his capital is able to create.

From Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy by John Bates Clark

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