“Why so many cereals?" - The economics of competition

Professor Jon Gruber explains how companies use product differentiation - such as in the breakfast cereal industry - to maintain profitability in highly competitive markets, in this segment from lecture 14 of Principles of Microeconomics.

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Post from MIT OpenCourseWare on July 15, 2025