Advantages of Perfect Market
- It achieves, subject to certain conditions, an allocation of resources which is: socially optimal" or "economically efficient" or "pareto efficient".
- Perfectly competitive firms are technically efficient in the long run, in that they produce that level of output, which minimizes their average costs, given their small capacity.
- Perfect competition achieves an automatic allocation of resources in response to changes in demand.
- The consumer is not exploited. The price of goods, in the long run will be as low as possible. Producers can only earn a normal profit, which are the minimum levels of profits necessary to retain firms in the industry, due to the existence of free entry into the markets.