Through notes and related videos, students gain a basic understanding of market structures and the characteristics of firms that display perfect competition.

E-learning site uses an example of "pushcarts on the beach" to demonstrate a monopolistically competitive market structure and how, as more firms enter the market, price, quantity, and deadweight loss are all affected.

Practice what you've learned about options available to regulate markets where the socially optimal quantity is not produced.

This video teaches the concept of Markets and Prices. A market refers to a group of buyers and sellers for a given good or service. The price is the amount of money needed to buy a particular good or service. The website contains an...

A wide variety of newspaper headlines are provided on the subject of economics and monopolistic competition. Each story comes with its own discussion questions.

Why are perfectly competitive markets efficient?

Practice what you have learned about the foundational ideas behind perfectly competitive markets, including the characteristics of a perfectly competitive market, profit-maximization, and graphs of perfectly competitive firms.

Read about the economic ideal of perfect competition.

This site provides a good description of the four types of market structures: perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and monopoly, along with the major characteristics of each.

This site provides the characteristics, behaviors, and problems of a firm in a monopolistic competition market structure.

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.

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.

This site offers economics-based newspaper headlines and asks follow-up questions based on supply and demand in a perfectly competitive market.

This site offers a variety of economics-related newspaper headlines in perfectly competitive markets, and each headline offers discussion questions related to that topic.

A good outline of course study on the topics of monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and anti-trust legislation.

This site provides an in-depth examination of monopolistic competition, along with appropriate levels of output, price, and corresponding profits. This site is for the advanced student of economics.

This site uses graphs to show how changes in demand would change a firm's output, price, and profits or losses in a monopolistically competitive market structure.

This site describes how by the 1970s, foreign manufacturers were embedded in the U.S. markets. For the U.S., this meant a loss of sales, a loss of jobs, and a loss of economic confidence.

A micro and macroeconomics course for 21st century learners. 28 half-hour videos sessions with text and guides regarding markets, firms, supply and demand, perfect competition and inelastic demand, economic efficiency, monopolies,...

This site provides an in-depth study of a "differentiated oligopoly," and uses supporting graphs. For the advanced economics student.

This website describes the conditions of a "perfectly competitive" market structure, and the obstacles that the individual firm in this market will face.

This site from Score provides information on the global marketplace. This is a unit where students are grouped to find out the best Latin American country to introduce a new fast food business. Site is very well outlined and includes...

This site provides a simple and easy-to-understand definition of monopolistic competition.

Practice what you have learned about the way firms choose the optimal use of inputs in this four-question exercise.