Article ID: CBB001451825

The Classical Notion of Competition Revisited (2013)

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The article discusses the economic notion of competition in texts of classical economics, noting a classical theory of market prices. Topics include the notion of free competition in the thought of economists Adam Smith and Karl Marx, the thought of economist Léon Walras on competition and an equilibrium state, and the differences between neoclassical and classical models of competition. Also addressed are the concept of perfect competition, the views of mathematician Joseph Louis François Bertrand, and the role of marginal costs in competition.

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Authors & Contributors
Kenneth Cohen
Numa, Guy
Frank, Robert H.
Young, Jeffrey T.
Volkmann, Laurenz
Stimson, Shannon C.
Journals
History of Political Economy
Science and Society
History of Political Thought
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Publishers
Yale University Press
Princeton University Press
Edward Elgar
Simon & Schuster
Routledge
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Economics
Philosophy
Biographies
Social sciences
Political economy
Socialism
People
Smith, Adam
Marx, Karl
Ricardo, David
Keynes, John Maynard, 1st Baron
Say, Jean-Baptiste
Dupuit, Jules
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Enlightenment
Places
Great Britain
Scotland
United States
France
Europe
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