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Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Loss of consumer surplus incurred by buyers and not captured by producers, which is consequent upon an initially competitive industry becoming monopolistic and therefore, ceteris paribus, charging a higher price and selling a lower level of output.  2, fiche 1, Anglais, - deadweight%20loss

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What happens to the little triangle EIG? It is lost to everybody and represents "deadweight loss". Thus consumers lose more than the monopolist's profit; and even if we took back the NEGN' profit by lump sum taxation, we would be losing to the devil of inefficiency the "deadweight triangle" which benefits nobody.  1, fiche 1, Anglais, - deadweight%20loss

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