Edward H. Chamberlin, 1899-1967.
A Harvard economist whose career turned out to be
disappointing after a promising start, Edward H. Chamberlin turned out to be a man of one
idea: "monopolistic competition", which he
unveiled to the world in 1933, coincidentally with Joan Robinson's
theory of imperfect competition. Chamberlin spent virtually the rest of his life on three
tracks: (1) differentiating his theory from Robinson's; (2) defending his theory against
the Chicago School and other critics, and (3)
puzzling why his theory had not brought on a revolution in microeconomics. All these
narrow concerns are brought together in an unremarkable book of essays (1957).
Major works of Edward H. Chamberlin
- "Duopoly: Values where sellers are few", 1929, QJE
- Theory of Monopolistic Competition, 1933.
- "Advertising Costs and Equilibrium", 1944, RES.
- "Proportionality, Divisibility and Economics of Scale", 1948, QJE.
- "An Experimental Imperfect Market", 1948, JPE.
- "Product Heterogeneity and Public Policy", 1950, AER.
- "Monopolistic Competition Revisited", 1951.
- "Impact of Recent Monopoly Theory on the Schumpeterian System", 1951, REStat.
- "Full Cost and Monopolistic Competition", 1952, EJ.
- "The Product as an Economic Variable", 1953, QJE.
- "Some Aspects of Nonprice Competition", 1954, in Huegy, editor, Role and
Nature of Competition.
- "Measuring the Degree of Monopoly and Competition", 1954, in Chamberlin,
editor, Monopoly and Competition and their Regulation.
- "The Monopoly Power of Labor", 1957, in Wright, editor, Impact of the Union.
- "On the Origin of Oligopoly", 1957, EJ.
- Towards a More General Theory of Value, 1957.
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