Quality and Competition : : An Essay in Economic Theory / / Lawrence Abbott.
Provides tools for the study of certain economic problems and benchmarks for the making of welfare judgements.
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1955] ©1955 |
| Year of Publication: | 1955 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (230 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part One. Quality Variability and Existing Economic Theory
- I. The Inadequacy of the Present Competitive Ideal
- II. The Incompleteness of Price Theory
- III. Foundations for a Theory of Quality
- Part Two. The Theory of Choice Of Quality
- IV. Basic And Derived Wants
- V. Some Needed Assumptions
- VI. Consumers’ and Producers’ Behavior
- VII. Some Distinctions Made Possible by the Theory
- Part Three. The Quality Variable and Competition
- VIII. The Nature of Economic Competition
- IX. Price and Nonprice Aspects of Competition
- X. Quality Competition
- XI. Equilibrium under Pure Quality Competition
- XII. Quality and Price Competition Combined
- XIII. Incomplete Competition
- XIV. Some Conclusions are Drawn
- Bibliography
- Index