In the long run, a perfectly competitive firm has zero economic profit and zero accounting profit.
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Economic profit is the total revenue of a firm minus all of its explicit and implicit costs, including opportunity costs. In other words, it measures the total value that a firm generates above and beyond what it would have earned in its next best alternative. Show more…
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