Until the 1980s, AT&T held a monopoly over thenational market for phone services. Suppose thatAT&T argued that it was a natural monopoly,because the fixed cost of creating a nationwidephone network generated huge economies ofscale, and that there was therefore no welfareloss associated with its monopoly. Counter thisargument by explaining how even a naturalmonopoly causes deadweight loss

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