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# Competition Among Buyers

## Definition

The rivalry between purchasers when quantity falls short of effectual demand, causing market prices to rise above natural prices as buyers compete to secure limited supply.

## Source Chapter

Book I, Chapter 7

## Context

Described as the mechanism that "will immediately begin among them, and the market price will rise more or less above the natural price" when supply is insufficient.

## Economic Domain

Exchange

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