How does a monopoly market limit economic utility?

Please provide the best answer for the statement.


Answer: A monopoly market does not encourage the monopolist to minimize resources consumed when producing goods. There is little incentive to reduce costs because the profit more than covers all the monopolist’s cost. Similarly, there is little incentive to find better, less costly ways of producing a product. Because monopolies have higher profits, there is little incentive to develop new technology that might increase its competitive edge over other firms, as there are no other competing firms.

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