MyLab Economics with Pearson eText -- Access Card -- for Microeconomics
MyLab Economics with Pearson eText -- Access Card -- for Microeconomics
6th Edition
ISBN: 9780134125886
Author: R. Glenn Hubbard, Anthony Patrick O'Brien
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 12, Problem 12.2.3RQ
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Why for a firm in perfectly competitive market the profit maximizing condition MR = MC is equivalent to the condition P = MC.

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