What is the best way to compare all of the following points; Ability to manipulate price, Technological advance in the form of product development and production methods, Expenditures on advertising and sales promotion, Stability of employment, Flexibility of prices, Efficiency in allocation of resources in pure competition, pure monopoly, monopolistic competition, and oligopoly?

-- Bill Vinnes (veteransmechanical@worldnet.att.net), December 15, 2003