Alternative Organization Perfect Competition and Efficiency What Is Economic Efficiency? The late Paul Heyne writes about efficiency for The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Efficiency.html Economic Efficiency in a Nutshell tutor2u.net organizes its explanation of efficiency differently than the way CyberEconomics explains efficiency: http://www.tutor2u.net/economics/content/topics/competition/efficiency.htm Consumers' Surplus The www.tutor2U.net site is from Britain and apparently is quite popular. Here it gives an explanation of consumer surplus: http://www.tutor2u.net/economics/content/topics/marketsinaction/consumer_surplus.htm The Paradox of Value Producers' Surplus Steve Suranovic has a textbook on international trade on the internet. Most of it is far more advanced than CyberEconomics, but not its examination of producer surplus: http://internationalecon.com/Trade/Tch90/T90-6B.php Producers' and Consumers' Surplus Illustrated Wikipedia has a short article illustrating producer and consumer surplus on a supply and demand graph: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_surplus Efficiency and Markets 1 Efficiency and Markets 2   Web ingrimayne.com These links were checked on May 27, 2007 Copyright Robert Schenk