Edward Chamberlain, a professor of economics at Harvard in the 1950s, pioneered the concept of " monopolistic competition, " a hybrid of the pure monopoly and pure competition models that were then the staple of economics courses.
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Published in 1933, his important book, " The Theory of Monopolistic Competition ", fused the previously separate theories of monopoly and competition, and sought to explain a range of market situations that are neither purely competitive nor totally monopolistic.
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Although the approach initially focused mainly on the rigidity of nominal prices, it was extended to wages and prices by Olivier Blanchard and Nobuhiro Kiyotaki in their influential article " Monopolistic Competition and the Effects of Aggregate Demand ".
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A new impetus was given to the field when around 1933 Joan Robinson and Edward H . Chamberlin, published respectively, " The Economics of Imperfect Competition " ( 1933 ) and " The Theory of Monopolistic Competition " ( 1933 ), introducing models of imperfect competition.
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While in economic terms, commoditization is closely related to and often follows from the stage when a market changes from one of monopolistic competition to one of perfect competition, a product essentially becomes a commodity when customers perceive little or no value difference between brands or versions.
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Divine published " Interest, an historical and analytical study in economics and modern ethics " in 1959 . The first president was Thomas Divine and the first Vice-President was Edward Chamberlin from Harvard University, mostly known for his work on monopolistic competition and on Chamberlinian monopolistic competition in particular.
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Divine published " Interest, an historical and analytical study in economics and modern ethics " in 1959 . The first president was Thomas Divine and the first Vice-President was Edward Chamberlin from Harvard University, mostly known for his work on monopolistic competition and on Chamberlinian monopolistic competition in particular.
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Chamberlin published his book " The Theory of Monopolistic Competition " in 1933, the same year that Joan Robinson published her book on the same topic : " The Economics of Imperfect Competition ", so these two economists can be regarded as the parents of the modern study of imperfect competition.
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J . Bradford DeLong argued that mathiness means 3 restricting your microfoundations in advance to guarantee a particular political result and hiding what you are doing in a blizzard of irrelevant and ungrounded algebra . 3 He argues that this is what George Stigler did when he rejected the inclusion of monopolistic competition in his models because in his mind it was too intellectually dangerous.
