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Competition and Social Welfare

The purely competitive firm in an output market which hires from a purely competitive labor market will use labor at the point where VMP = W as the firm: (i) Operates in the society's best interest. (ii) Wants to be pretty fair to workers. (iii) Is egalitarian institution. (iv) Tries to maximize gains.

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