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That’s a very simplified definition. I don’t think economists consider any market with significant barriers to entry and economies of scale to be a natural monopoly. From what I’ve seen, the term is usually used whenever the market actually has become a monopoly, or if it appears that the barriers to entry and economies of scale are so significant that the optimum number of firms is one.


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