"No firm is completely sheltered from rivals; all firms compete for the consumer dollars.  If that is so, then pure monopoly does not exist."  Do you agree?  Explain.  How might you use Chapter 6's concept of cross elasticity of demand to judge whether monopoly exists?

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Perfect Competition

It is the structure of the market that is said to exist when with many buyers and sellers exchanging similar commodities and its price is fixed by the market forces, demand, and supply, and a single firm cannot cause an impact over the price or market value of the homogenous product. This structure of the market is called perfect competition.