The Monopolistic Competition Revolution in Retrospect - Hardcover

 
9780521819916: The Monopolistic Competition Revolution in Retrospect

Synopsis

Avinash Dixit and Joseph Stiglitz revolutionized the modelling of imperfectly competitive markets and launched "the second monopolistic competition revolution". Experts in the areas of macroeconomics, international trade theory, economic geography, and international growth theory examine the success of the second revolution in this collection of papers. They reveal what appears to be "missing" and look forward to the next step in the modelling of imperfectly competitive markets. The text includes a comprehensive survey of the two monopolistic competition revolutions, and previously unpublished working papers by Dixit and Stiglitz that led to their famous 1977 paper.

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Book Description

A seminal paper by Avinash Dixit and Joseph Stiglitz revolutionized the modelling of imperfectly competitive markets and launched 'the second monopolistic competition revolution'. In this collection of original essays experts in the fields of macroeconomics, international trade theory, economic geography, and international gr owth theory examine the success of the second revolution, what is missing, and look forward to the next step in the modelling of imperfectly competitive markets.

About the Author

Steven Brakman is Professor of International Economics at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is co-author of The Economics of International Transfers (with C. van Marrewijk, 1998) and An Introduction to Geographical Economics (with C. van Marrewijk, H. Garretsen, 2001). Ben Heijdra is Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is the co-author (with Frederick van der Ploeg) of Foundations of Modern Economics (2002).

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011
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