Thesis
Competition in the history of economic thought
- Abstract:
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The word, competition, entered economic discourse slowly and naturally, over many decades and even centuries, as a term of common usage. From that point of view, I trace the development of the word, as it underwent various conceptual modifications en route to the more technical concept of perfect competition. The growing divergence between the ordinary meaning and the technical concept of competition represents one of the many gauges of the progress of economics towards becoming a rigorou...
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Authors
- Publication date:
- 1975
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Language:
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English
- Subjects:
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- Source identifiers:
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602329320
- Deposit date:
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2013-06-22
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- Copyright holder:
- Dennis, Kenneth
- Copyright date:
- 1975
- Notes:
- The digital copy of this thesis has been made available thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky
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