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Competitive Illusion as a Cause of Business Cycles

Thomas W. Mitchell

Federal Trade Commission

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1924

Supplies come on the market, not as quantities available for sale, but as flow responding to demand, 632. — Manufacturers' usual practice is to "sell then make, " not "make for stock, " 634. — Details of the "sell-then-make" policy, 635. — The "make-for-stock" policy sometimes followed in part; its virtues, 636. — Connection of the sell-then-make policy with business cycles, 642. — Demands from distributers bring response in production, 642. — If products are not forthcoming, orders are exaggerated or duplicated, 645. — False demands lead to over-enlargement of supplies, 647. — Reaction. Alternate exaggeration and understatement of consumers' demands, 648.

DOI
10.2307/1884594
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38 (4)
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