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Calculating Total Producer Surplus Using Integration
When treating quantity as a continuous variable, total producer surplus can be calculated with integration for any given price and quantity sold , irrespective of whether it's a market equilibrium point. The surplus is the integral of the price minus the marginal cost () from zero to : Total Producer Surplus = . This is equivalent to the formula , where represents the firm's fixed costs. This expression effectively calculates total revenue () minus the total variable costs ().
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