Explanation Comparing the price and output policies, the monopolist and cartel are same but entirely different with a purely competitive industry. According to a monopoly market or a cartel, they can fix the price in the market. They will produce less and sell it in a higher price to increase their profit from the sales. It can be illustrated as follows: According to the Figure 1, the monopoly will produce its profit maximizing output at the point where at marginal revenue equals to the marginal cost. It will fix the price at the inelastic portion of its demand curve shown by point A in the above figure and it will produce OQ output with OP price. However, in the case of a competitive industry, they cannot fix the price in the market...

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Distinguish between the price and output policies of a purely competitive industry and a profit maximizing monopolist or cartel.

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