Question: For Questions 1 through 5, please consider a market served by a monopolist. The monopolist has a linear marginal cost (shown here as Marginal Private


For Questions 1 through 5, please consider a market served by a monopolist. The monopolist has a linear marginal cost (shown here as Marginal Private Cost, MPCM) and a downward-sloping demand curve D0. Here is a graphical representation of that market.
Question 1:
Assume that this monopolist is making a positive economic profit.
Add any necessary curve(s) to the graph shown below and graphically indicate:
- The original monopoly price P0 and monopoly quantity Q0.
- The "socially optimal" output (the output the Benevolent Dictator would choose) QSO.
- The resulting Consumer Surplus CS0, the resulting Producer Surplus PS0, and the size of Dead-Weight Loss DWL0 if there is such a loss.
- Positive economic profits ?0.


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