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2024-08-17 13:39:14

sommerfeld on Nostr: I remember reading somewhere that perfect competition under a free market was not ...

I remember reading somewhere that perfect competition under a free market was not really stable nor desirable.
This is because it causes profit margins to tend to 0 which has 2 negative effects:
* makes companies more fragile to externalities
* does not allow companies to accumulate treasuries that enable them to do research, innovate, take risks, etc
The end result is a stale stagnated balkanized economy. The corollary is that some market imbalances and assymetries are healthy.

Anyone knows where this reasoning comes from? Did I dream it up?
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