Journal Article Advertising Costs and Equilibrium—A Correction Get access Edward H. Chamberlin Edward H. Chamberlin Cambridge, Mass. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 12, Issue 2, 1944, Pages 116–120, https://doi.org/10.2307/2296097 Published: 01 September 1944

I. Introduction, 515. — II. Early origins in railway rate theory: oligopoly, 517. — III. Process, structure and logic, 520. — IV. “Competing monopolists” and the literature of business, 524. — V. The attack on Marshall, 532; oligopoly, 533, increasing returns, 534, the representative firm and dynamic problems, 538. — VI. Marshall on monopolistic competition, 540.

A Second Supplementary Bibliography on Monopolistic Competition Get access Edward H. Chamberlin Edward H. Chamberlin Harvard University May 1956 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 70, Issue 4, November 1956, Page 613, https://doi.org/10.2307/1881868 Published: 01 November 1956

I. Introduction: the inadequacy of mere price-quantity analysis; possible relationships between the four variables of price, product, advertising and quantity, 1. — II. Products are variable; the meaning of product determination, 8. — III. Three main determinants of products: custom, 12; standards, 14; profit maximization, 17.

A Supplementary Bibliography on Monopolistic Competition Edward H. Chamberlin Edward H. Chamberlin Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 62, Issue 4, August 1948, Pages 629–638, https://doi.org/10.2307/1881771 Published: 01 August 1948

The problem, 229. — Plant and envelope curves: plant average cost, 230; average cost, 231; the envelope, 234. — Divisibility and economies of scale: reasons for successively lower minima, 235; the imperfect divisibility analysis, 236; the “mathematics” of divisibility, 238; divisibility and efficiency, 239; capital equipment, 243. — Proportionality and diseconomies of scale: importance of the problem, 246; the unnecessary search for a fixed factor, 247; reasons for higher plant curves, 248; no “most efficient proportion,” 249. — Constant proportions and homogeneity: the curve of constant proportions, 250; the problem of distribution, 252. — Summary: proportions and size, 255. — Appendix: the indifference curve analysis, 257.

Some misconceptions examined relative to: marginal revenue, 558; increasing returns, 560; tangency of demand and cost curves, 561; large numbers and divisibility, 562; restriction of entry, 566; differentiation of product, 568.— The nature of monopolistic competition, 570; contrast with imperfect competition, 573.— Significance of the difference with respect to: profits, 576; "competitive" norms, 576; "exploitation, " 577.