The geography of competition
firms, prices, and localization
- ISBN: 9781441956255
- Editorial: Springer International Publishing AG
- Fecha de la edición: 2010
- Lugar de la edición: New York. Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 441
- Idiomas: Inglés
CONTENTS: The Craft of the Story Teller: Economic reasoning in a geographic setting.- The Firm at Home and Abroad: Monopoly at two places .- Logistics and Programming: Getting the commodity to customers.- The Struggling Masses: Perfect competition at two places.- Arbitrage in the Grand Scheme: Perfect competition at many places.- Ferrying Inputs and Outputs: Factory location in a non-ubiquitous world.- What the Firm does On-site: Insurance, agglomeration, and the organization of the firm.- Staking out the Firm's Market: Price and the geometry of competition.- The Cautious Farmer and the Local Market: Market participation under uncertainty.- Farming for Cash: Market participation and demand.- The City and its Hinterland: A regional economy with substitutability in production.- Local Production and Consumption: Substitutability, saturation, and the regional economy.
