Readings in Industrial Organization and Public Policy: Selected by a Committee of the American Economic Association

Table of contents

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• The Series of Republished Articles on Economics ii
• Title Page iii
• Preface v
• Contents ix
• I - The Structure of Industries and Markets 1
• 1 - The Measurement of Industrial Concentration 3
• 2 - Economies of Scale, Concentration, and the Condition of Entry in Twenty Manufacturing Industries 46
• 3 - Monopoly and Oligopoly by Merge 69
• II - Case Studies in Industrial Structure and Behavior 81
• 4 - An Alternative Approach to the Concept of Workable Competition 83
• 5 - The Decline of Monopoly in the Metal Container Industry 96
• 6 - The Tobacco Case of 1946 105
• 7 - The Cellophane Case and the New Competition 118
• III - Business Practices and Market Behavior 151
• 8 - Basing Point Pricing and Public Policy 153
• 9 - The Nature and Significance of Price Leadership 176

• The Series of Republished Articles on Economics ii
• Title Page iii
• Preface v
• Contents ix
• I - The Structure of Industries and Markets 1
• 1 - The Measurement of Industrial Concentration 3
• 2 - Economies of Scale, Concentration, and the Condition of Entry in Twenty Manufacturing Industries 46
• 3 - Monopoly and Oligopoly by Merge 69
• II - Case Studies in Industrial Structure and Behavior 81
• 4 - An Alternative Approach to the Concept of Workable Competition 83
• 5 - The Decline of Monopoly in the Metal Container Industry 96
• 6 - The Tobacco Case of 1946 105
• 7 - The Cellophane Case and the New Competition 118
• III - Business Practices and Market Behavior 151
• 8 - Basing Point Pricing and Public Policy 153
• 9 - The Nature and Significance of Price Leadership 176
• 10 - Price and Production Policies of Large-Scale Enterprise 190
• IV - Industrial Organization and Economic Theory 205
• 11 - Uncertainty, Evolution, and Economic Theory 207
• 12 - A Note on Pricing in Monopoly and Oligopoly 220
• 13 - Product Heterogeneity and Public Policy 236
• 14 - Competition: Static Models and Dynamic Aspects 244
• 15 - Price Discrimination and the Multiple-Product Firm 262
• 16 - The Influence of Market Structure on Technological Progress 277
• 17 - Toward a Theory of Industrial Markets and Prices 297
• 18 - Antitrust and the Classic Model 316
• V - Competition, Monopoly, and Public Policy 335
• 19 - Public Policy and Business Size 337
• 20 - Standards for Antitrust Policy 352
• 21 - The Current Status of the Monopoly Problem in the United States 376
• Bibliography 393