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PERFECT COMPETITION AND EFFICIENCY
- In the long run: P = MC = ATC min
- Productive efficiency: P = ATC min
- Goods produced in the least costly way.
- Price charged consistent with the cost.
- Allocative efficiency: P = MC
- resources are apportioned among industries to yield the mix of products that is most wanted by the society.
- Maximize the total surplus (CS + PS)