As we learned in the section on Demand Change, when demand increases market price increases in the short run, allowing firms to earn profits. However, in the long run new firms enter, shifting out supply to S2 and causing profits to disappear, but industry output to increase to Q3 and causing price to return to P1.

   What if demand once again increases?

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