Quality and Competition : An Essay in Economic Theory / Lawrence Abbott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abbott, Lawrence, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Competition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1955]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Provides tools for the study of certain economic problems and benchmarks for the making of welfare judgements.

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-88898-8

OCLC:

1100441445