Welfare and competition

Author(s)

• Scitovsky, Tibor

Bibliographic Information

Welfare and competition

Tibor Scitovsky

（Modern revivals in economics）

Gregg Revivals, 1993

[New ed. of 2 rev. ed]

Note

Originally published : London : Allen & Unwin, 1971

Previous ed.: London : Allen & Unwin, 1952

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Covers general economic, rather than employment, theory. The text explains the theory of pure competition, the working of the market economy and the pricing system. The work focuses on firms' behaviour and the economic system's efficiency under varying forms of monopolistic competition.

Table of Contents

• Part 1: the subject matter of economics
• the market. Part 2: the price teker's behaviour and perfect competition
• #, the consumer
• the consumers' market and the notion of economic efficiency
• the worker and the efficiency of the labour market
• the firm
• the firm (continued) - the marker behaviour of the firm
• the efficiency of production
• capital
• the stability of perfect competition. Part 3: irrationality, indivisibility, inequality
• consumer's sovereignty and rationality
• the indivisibility of products
• externalities
• equity and the distribution of income. Part 4: the price maker's behaviour and free competition
• the profit margin
• the cost of production
• the conditions of free competition
• the efficiency of free competition. (part contents)

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Details

• NCID: BA22896648
• ISBN:
  • 0751202533
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Aldershot
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 492 p.: ill
• Size: 23 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA14164509