Allocative Efficiency and Consumers' and Producers' Surplus

Allocative efficiency maximizes total surplus obtained by producers and consumers. As we've seen the surpluses represent real monetary value.

As we can see on the graph to the right, producer surplus green area + consumer surplus yellow shaded area could not be made any larger given these supply and demand curves.

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