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The Cambridge Background to Imperfect Competition

In: The Economics of Imperfect Competition and Employment

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  • John K. Whitaker

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The Economics of Imperfect Competition (Robinson, 1933) is a quintessentially Cambridge book, very much an outgrowth of the economics of Marshall and Pigou as tempered and criticized in the ‘Cambridge cost controversies’ of the 1920s. So close is the book’s dependence on Cambridge tradition, and so limited its reliance on intellectual developments emanating elsewhere, that it is difficult to imagine that it could have been written by anyone but a true product of the Cambridge School of Economics, founded by Marshall and, in the early 1930s, very much at the height of its glory.

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  • John K. Whitaker, 1989. "The Cambridge Background to Imperfect Competition," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: George R. Feiwel (ed.), The Economics of Imperfect Competition and Employment, chapter 3, pages 169-196, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-08630-6_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08630-6_3
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    1. Claudio Sardoni, 2004. "The contribution of Gerald Shove to the development of Cambridge Economics," Review of Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(3), pages 361-375.

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