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Seinfeld Economics: The Barber (Jerry's Haircut)

by Linda Ghent

Competition is the allocation of productive resources to their most highly valued uses and encouraging efficiency. Microeconomics theory distinguishes between perfect competition and imperfect competition, concluding that no system of resource allocation is more efficient than perfect competition. Competition, according to economic theory, causes commercial firms to develop new products, services and technologies, which would give consumers greater selection and better products. The greater selection typically causes lower prices for the products, compared to what the price would be if there was no competition (monopoly) or little competition (oligopoly).

Seinfeld: The Barber (Jerry's Haircut)

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Jerry gets a bad haircut but refuses to change barbers because he is loyal. Eventually, he is convinced to leave his barber of 12 years for the barber's nephew. Bad quality doesn't persist in the marketplace; it is competed away. Perhaps the answer to bad haircuts is not more regulation, but more competition.

from Seinfeld, Season 5 (1993)
Creator: Larry David & Jerry Seinfeld
Posted by Linda Ghent
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