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Chapter 14: Supply and Demand: Markets — Economics 101

What a market actually is, the four conditions for perfect competition, and why those conditions matter even though real markets never fully meet them.
Chapter 20: Perfect Competition in the Short and Long Run — Economics 101

What perfect competition is, why it’s a thought experiment more than a reality, how entry and exit drive economic profit to zero in the long run, and how real markets sit on a continuum from perfect competition to monopoly.
Chapter 24: Pricing Behaviors — Economics 101

Price leadership, price wars, product differentiation, and price discrimination — the four pricing strategies that emerge when firms have market power but can’t legally collude.
Chapter 25: Monopoly — The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly — Economics 101

Not all monopolies are evil. Natural monopolies, patent monopolies, and government monopolies exist for defensible reasons. Unregulated monopolies are the problem — De Beers is the textbook ugly.