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Perfect Competition
Young economists consider perfect competition, market demand, supply, and long-run equilibrium in this practical activity. There are eight multiple part questions to answer, real-world scenarios to consider, and graphs to complete.
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An Introduction To Perfect Competition
In this economics worksheet, students complete a series of activities about how businesses operate and how their operation affects society. Business costs and revenues are considered as students answer 24 multi-step questions in the packet.
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Oligopoly
Economics can be a competitive and, at times, devious subject. Learners work through a series of four worksheets to better understand oligopoly. Each sheet includes real-world scenarios, passages to read, graphs to analyze, and short...
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Market Structures and Competition
Young scholars review concepts related to market structures and competition. Using supply and demand, they identify what factors cause them to shift and analyze business downward facing demand curves. They compare and contrast the...
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Business Practices and Competition
Pupils identify the costs and benefits of large corporations and monopoly industries. Using the internet, they discover how businesses use different types of exploitation to maximize their profits. They read two articles about plants...
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The Market Power Game
Students play a game to evaluate the power of competition in the four types of market structures. They describe characteristics and give examples of pure competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and monopoly.
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Bitsboard - Education, Games, and Flashcards for Learning Reading, Spelling, and more
Learn everything from sight words to French vocabulary with this versatile study app. While the material that comes pre-loaded on the app is mostly based on learning how to read and spell, the app has the potential to be useful for any...
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A Proper Role for Government - Seeking Perfection in an Imperfect World
Students discuss the proper role of government in the economy. Reviewing the foundations for a market economy to work properly, they decide how to best direct resources to get the most out of them. They distinguish between private and...
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The Role of Public and Private Sectors
Students explore the role of government in the economy market. In this economics lesson, students analyze the decision making and how it takes into consideration additional cost, benefits and public awareness of what they are trying to...
Miami University
Chapter Nine Worksheet: Monopoly
Advanced economics pupils analyze a series of graphs, data sets, and profit scenarios all related to monopolies and marginal revenue. They read through the background information, complete a graph using the data provided, and justify...
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: Perfect Competition
This site shows cost curves for a firm in a perfectly competitive market, and has an interactive graph to show what their profit margin is at various levels of production.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Perfect Competition
This site provides a clear description of the requirements and conditions needed in a market for it to be labeled a perfectly competitive market. The topics of allocative efficiency and productive efficiency are also addressed.
Other
South Western Learning: Econ News: Comparative Statics: Perfect Competition
This site offers economics-based newspaper headlines and asks follow-up questions based on supply and demand in a perfectly competitive market.
Tutor2u
Tutor2u: Perfect Competition Introduction
This website describes the conditions of a "perfectly competitive" market structure, and the obstacles that the individual firm in this market will face.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Increasing, Decreasing, and Constant Cost Industies
Practice what you have learned about the effect of economies of scale on cost and prices in this exercise.
Curated OER
Perfect Competition
This site shows costs curves for a firm in a perfectly competitive market, and has an interactive graph to show what their profit margin is at various levels of production.
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A Simple Seller Environment
This site offers a description of a price taker and the characteristics in this sellers' market structure. The price taker is examined in both the short run and the long run.