Suppose as the industry grows in size the long run equilibrium price is increasing, as shown. Here demand shifts out to D2 leading to short run profits causing entry. This causes supply to shift out to S2 .

  The new long run equilibrium price is P3. What could cause this to occur? It's not how we described an adjustment to demand in the section on Demand Change.

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