Market Structures


 
3.1 Compare and contrast the following forms of business organization: sole proprietorship, partnership and corporation.
3.3 Recognize that economic institutions, such as labor unions, nonprofit organizations and cooperatives, evolve in market economies to help members and clients accomplish their goals.
3.4 Identify the basic characteristics of the four market structures: monopoly, oligopoly, monopolistic competition and pure competition.
3.5 Explain how competition among many sellers lowers costs and prices.
3.6 Demonstrate how firms determine price and output through marginal analysis.
3.7 Explain ways that firms engage in price and non-price competition.
3.8 Identify laws and regulations adopted in the United States to promote competition among firms.
3.9 Explain the function of profit in a market economy as an incentive for entrepreneurs to accept the risks of business failure.
3.10 Describe the benefits of natural monopolies (economies of scale) and the purposes of government regulation of these monopolies, such as utilities.
   
 

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