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The question is regarding what is crony capitalism as illustrated in the video.
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The video on crony capitalism explains that while traditional capitalism is based on free exchange of goods and services between independent agents, crony capitalism involves the government being influenced by special interests and engaging in favoritism.
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This results in unfairness, wasteful of resources and wasteful spending of tax per money, distortion of broader economy and potential for corruption.
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So these all includes crony capitalism.
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The next question is discuss how monopolies are inefficient in economy with the help of the given examples from the video.
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In context of the monopoly, the video suggests that the crony capitalism exacerbates the economic inefficiency caused by monopolistic practices.
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When the government engages in crony capitalism, it can award contracts or privileges to specific companies or businesses or individual based on the contracts, the political entities or lobbying rather than making decision based on the merit of competition or efficiency.
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This can lead to overpayment and limited innovation and the suppression of competition, ultimately harming the overall economy.
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In the next question, it is asking to differentiate between the economic efficiency of a perfect competition in respect to economic inefficiency of a monopoly.
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In context to the video, perfect competition is considered economically efficient because it allows for a free market and fair practices where numerous sellers and buyers compete with each other.
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In perfect competition, no individual firm has significant influence or power over the market and there exists free entry and exit and no barriers for the trade.
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This leads to potential optimal allocation of resources, competitive prices and increased innovation thereby having economic gains and efficiency.
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On the other hand, monopolies are characterized by a single firm dominating over the market share and facing limited competition.
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Economic inefficiency arises in monopolies due to several reasons including 1...