TY  - JOUR
AB  - In 1933 two books on competitive structure were published. One, extracted from a Harvard PhD filed six years earlier, dealt with the workings of the competitive process. Seeking not to supplant, but to supplement Marshall, this book by E. H. Chamberlin focused on an effort involving the use of a diagrammatic apparatus to highlight certain fundamental relationships between variables in the competitive process. It did not analyse real firms but nor did it attempt to pretend that such were irrelevant, and to concentrate on positions of competitive equilibrium only. It dealt with problems of arrival at equilibrium, false trading, and a whole variety of issues relevant to an actual competitive process. Supervised by Allyn Young, it drew on a wide range of references and showed evidence of the kind of thorough scholarly preparation which has always been characteristic of the best American PhDs.
VL  - 10
IS  - 4
SN  - 0144-3585
DO  - 10.1108/eb002568
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb002568
AU  - O'Brien D.P.
PY  - 1983
Y1  - 1983/01/01
TI  - Research Programmes in Competitive Structure
T2  - Journal of Economic Studies
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 29
EP  - 51
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -