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Dead Weight Loss

Is the loss to society that market failure creates.

The diagram below highlights a monopoly market structure, in which a deadweight loss is created because of the presence of monopoly power i.e. restriction of output and a rise in prices - leading to the welfare of society to be lower with presence of the monopoly compared to a perfectly competitive market.

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