👉 In the context of economics, a noncollusiveness argument is a theory that suggests that in an economy where there are no external incentives to produce more than what can be produced (i.e., a perfectly competitive market), the quantity of output will be determined by supply and demand alone. This means that if one firm's output exceeds its average total cost, it will not decrease but rather increase its output to match the new level of production. If the quantity of output is not increasing at the rate
