In: Economics
Economists consider monopolists
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 to be efficient, since they earn greater profits than perfect competitors.  | 
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 to be inefficient since all consumer surplus is transferred to the monopolist in the form of profits.  | 
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 to be inefficient since they earn less producers’ surplus than all firms taken together in a competitive market.  | 
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 to be inefficient since the monopolist restricts output from the competitive level, thus creating dead-weight loss.  |