The standard theory of monopsony originated with Joan Robinson in her The Economics of Imperfect Competition (1933). This standard theory describes employers as facing upward-sloping supply curves of labor,
This article provides a new synthesis between the strategic management literature and Austrian capital theory. The resource allocation process plays out in the context of differing subunit preferences
Rothbard realizes that the economy is not competitive, that it is shot through with elements of monopoly. The left-wing Chamberlinians used this as a beautiful handle to combine with the Marxists
Most economists would, given the opportunity, offer some proposal to reform antitrust policy. Some would contend that this or that aspect of antitrust law should be eliminated or more weakly enforced.
Using Mises’s concept of economic calculation, this paper explains why conglomerates are frequently observed in emerging economies across the world.
Although bits and pieces of "Competition as a Discovery Procedure" began to appear in English as early as the 1970s, the translator discovered that, by the time he assumed emeritus status in 1998, no full translation of the original 1968 Kiel version was yet extant.
Cartels, characterized by activities such as simultaneous price increases or decreases, or virtual price identity at almost the same time, without explicit communications or agreements, have long been discussed.
The substitution of a monopoly price for a competitive price is tantamount to a serious restriction of the working of the most characteristic principle of the free enterprise system, i.e., of the sovereignty of the consumers.
One is not intellectually free to use the neoclassical theory of the firm at one time to explain economic action, and to discard it at another. If the theory of the firm does not apply in all explanations of firm behavior
The author explores during a lecture that all antitrust regulation is economically inefficient and morally wrong and all of it—the laws and the enforcement agencies—should be thrown out.
