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00:02 All right.
00:03 The question is talking about oligopolis.
00:05 There are industries containing only a few large firms, and our choices are whose decisions are consciously linked.
00:12 Each face a horizontal demand curve that can ignore the firm's reactions as they price, produce, and market their goods.
00:21 But each firm is small relative to the market, then maximize output rather than profits.
00:28 And the best choice here is going to be this first one whose decisions are consciously linked.
00:33 Linked because, you know, rather than one company, you know, being under the guise of a monopoly, you know, where there's just one firm or one company that's kind of controlling the, that particular branch of industry...
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