IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/vep/journl/y2013v121i3-4p387-404.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

A few remarks on monopoly and monopsony

Author

Listed:
  • Paolo Sylos Labini

    (assistente nella facolta` di Economia e Commercio, Universita` di Roma)

Abstract

Sylos Labini’s essay is devoted to the analysis of price determination under condition of monopoly and monopsony. The problem of price indeterminacy in case of bilateral monopoly (associated with monopsony) is thoroughly discussed in relation to the market for goods and factors of production. The various cases are examined by assuming the hypothesis of ‘contracting parties’ ignorance of each other’s price elasticities. In the last two sections of the paper, the A. make use of his analysis of monopoly and monopsony to dismiss the ‘Classical’ argument that a perfect wage flexibility can bring about a full employment equilibrium and offers his own interpretation of Keynes’s underemployment equilibrium grounded not on monetary factors but upon market structures. Sylos Labini offers a fresh perspective on the issues he was about to present in his major work Oligopolio e Progresso Tecnico (1956).

Suggested Citation

  • Paolo Sylos Labini, 2013. "A few remarks on monopoly and monopsony," Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, Vita e Pensiero, Pubblicazioni dell'Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, vol. 121(3-4), pages 387-404.
    • Handle: RePEc:vep:journl:y:2013:v:121:i:3-4:p:387-404
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://riss.vitaepensiero.it/scheda-articolo_digital/paolo-sylos-labini/a-few-remarks-on-monopoly-and-monopsony-000518_2013_0003_0387-168618.html
    Download Restriction: Yes
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Monopoly; Monopsony; Imperfect Competition; Unemployment; Industrial Fluctuations;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • B21 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Microeconomics
    • L12 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Monopoly; Monopolization Strategies
    • L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
    • L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
    • L16 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics; Macroeconomic Industrial Structure

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:vep:journl:y:2013:v:121:i:3-4:p:387-404. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Vep - Vita e Pensiero (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.