Which statement is false? A monopoly sells lower-quality products at higher prices than in a perfect competition. Natural monopo
lies are necessary to avoid wasteful duplication of resources. Collusion is legal in the United States, but cartels are not. The start-up costs in a monopolistically competitive industry are low. Homogeneous products leave consumers with no choice.
The correct answer is: "Collusion is legal in the United States, but cartels are not".
The Sherman Antitrust Act, was a federal law enacted back in 1890 to regulate competition among companies. It bans anticompetitive (colusive) agreements between enterprises that sell the same product and avoid to compete by fixing market prices together or by determining production quotas for each firm. It also bans cartels, which are differenced corporations that act jointly as if they were a monopoly and hence, attend their joint interests instead of competing. Any conduct that restricts competition is limited by this legislation.
Moreover, the act also prohibits monopolistic behaviour when it is undertaken by a single firm.
They organized secret societies and raiding parties. The most notorious was the Ku Klux Klan. These societies often rode in groups and raid
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The world has breathed a collective sigh of relief after the superpowers reached an agreement ending the immediate threat of nuclear war. Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev has agreed to dismantle all Russian missiles based in Cuba and ship them back to the Soviet Union.
