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To maintain its market position as a monopoly, the monopoly must maintain and protect its “high barriers to entry”

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To maintain its market position as a monopoly, the monopoly must maintain and protect its “high barriers to entry”.

What do we mean by “high entry barriers”, and how is this different from the “free-entry and free-exit” conditions that characterize perfect competition?