The Corporate Instinct

Richard Kahn
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Chapter Chapter 12 in The Economics of the Short Period, 1989, pp 170-173 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract ‘Whatever might be the natural effects of unchecked competition, business has evidently developed checks sufficient to protect its necessary earnings, taking good and bad years together.’1 ‘Since unchecked competition is suicidal and cannot continue, can anything continue which deserves the name of competition? … The answer appears to be that business rivalry still exists, subject to checks in the way of understandings and standards of fair tactics, enforced partly by the group ethics of the business community, partly by a lively sense of the need of common self-preservation, which is at the bottom of a deal of the group ethics, and partly by the discipline exercised by the larger and stronger concerns.’2

Keywords: Group Ethic; Federal Trade Commission; Overhead Cost; Fair Price; Actual Price (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-09817-0_12

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