The economics of Sellers' competition : model analysis of Seller's conduct / by Fritz Machlup.

AUTHOR'S PREFACE, v. -- PART I-THEORY OF THE FIRM AND TYPES OF COMPETITION. 1. Model Analysis and Observation: Prices and Costs, 3. -- 2. The Theory of the Finn: Marginal Analysis of Prices, Inputs, and Outputs, 27. -- 3. The Practice of the Firm: Empirical Evidence and Counter-Evidence, 57. -- 4. Types of Competition in Selling, 79. -- Appendix: Types of Competition in Buying, 126. -- PART II-MANY SELLERS. 5. Perfect and Imperfect Polypoly, 135. -- Appendix: Marginal Revenue and Elasticity of Demand, 159. -- 6. Polypolistic Nonprice Competition and Other Forms of Non-Perfect Polypoly, 161. -- PART III-MORE SELLERS. 7. Pliopoly: Newcomers to a Profitable Industry, 211. -- 8. Pliopoly: Profits, Rents, and Artificial Scarcity, 242. -- PART IV-MANY AND MORE SELLERS. 9. Polypoly and Pliopoly Combined, When Both Are Perfect, 273. -- 10. Polypoly md Pliopoly Combined, When· Either or Both Are Imperfect, 300. -- PART V-FEW SELLERS. 11. Characteristics and Classifications of Oligopoly, 347. -- 12. Classical Duopoly Theories and Their Modem Extensions, 368. -- 13. Oligopolistic Indeterminacy and Collusion, 414. -- 14. Oligopolistic Nonprice Competition and Price Rigidity, 449. -- 15. Organized Oligopoly, Leadership Oligopoly, Unorganized Oligopoly, 475. -- PART VI-FEW BUT MORE SELLERS. 16. Oligopoly and Pliopoly Combined, 517. -- PART VII-ONE SELLER. 17. Monopoly, 543. -- INDEX, 567.