Consumer and Producer Surplus
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9. GLOSSARY
deadweight loss:
the loss in social surplus that occurs when a market produces an inefficient quantity
producer surplus:
the value to producers of their sales above their cost of production
social (or economic or total) surplus:
the sum of consumer and producer surplus at some quantity and price of output