Perfect Competition Displays the Market Mechanism at Its Best in Many

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Essay

Perfect competition displays the market mechanism at its best in many respects, yet most markets in operation today are monopolistic or oligopolistic, composed of a few large firms.Should government regulation break up those large firms into several smaller firms to try to achieve perfect competition? Why or why not?

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