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22 lines
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# Competition Among Buyers
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## Definition
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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.
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## Source Chapter
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Book I, Chapter 7
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## Context
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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.
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## Economic Domain
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Exchange
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