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market power  

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  • Market power describes the capability of either a buyer or a seller to negotiate, bargain, and make exchanges that are more aligned to their own preferences than to the preferences of the other. A market, where goods and services are bought and sold, is a social institution where benefits and costs are distributed. [Source: Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society; Market Power]

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