The Origin and Early Development of Monopolistic Competition Theory

Edward H. Chamberlin

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1961, vol. 75, issue 4, 515-543

Abstract: I. Introduction, 515. — II. Early origins in railway rate theory: oligopoly, 517. — III. Process, structure and logic, 520. — IV. "Competing monopolists" and the literature of business, 524. — V. The attack on Marshall, 532; oligopoly, 533, increasing returns, 534, the representative firm and dynamic problems, 538. — VI. Marshall on monopolistic competition, 540.

Date: 1961
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