Consumer, Producer and Community Surplus How much would you be willing to pay for this? Or this?

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Consumer, Producer and Community Surplus How much would you be willing to pay for this? •Or this?

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Consumer, Producer and Community Surplus

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Consumer SurplusConsumer surplus The difference

between the highest price a consumer is willing to pay and the price the consumer actually pays.

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Producer SurplusProducer surplus The difference between the lowest price a firm would have been willing to accept and the price it actually receives.

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Community Surplus of Competitive Markets

Community Surplus Equals the Sum of Consumer Surplus and Producer Surplus

Economic efficiency

Occurs where the sum of consumer surplus and producer surplus is at a maximum.

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The incidence of taxation on Community

Surplus

Deadweight welfare loss froman indirect tax

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