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# Competition Among Sellers

## Definition

The rivalry between suppliers when quantity exceeds effectual demand, causing market prices to fall below natural prices as sellers compete to dispose of excess inventory.

## Source Chapter

Book I, Chapter 7

## Context

Identified as the force that "increases more or less the competition of the sellers" when supply exceeds demand, reducing market prices.

## Economic Domain

Exchange

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