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Consumer Surplus Consumer surplus The difference between the highest price a consumer is willing to pay and the price the consumer actually pays.

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1 Consumer Surplus Consumer surplus The difference between the highest price a consumer is willing to pay and the price the consumer actually pays.

2 Producer Surplus Producer surplus
The difference between the lowest price a firm would have been willing to accept and the price it actually receives.

3 Community Surplus of Competitive Markets
Economic efficiency Occurs where the sum of consumer surplus and producer surplus is at a maximum. Community Surplus Equals the Sum of Consumer Surplus and Producer Surplus

4 Deadweight loss from an indirect tax
S + tax S P2 Q2 P1 P2 - tax D O Q1 Q


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