Re: Microeconomics of cornering

2003-08-04 Thread Anders Schneiderman
FYI, URL for the site is http://www.debunking-economics.com/ . It's definitely worth checking out. Thanks, Anders [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/03/03 12:16AM I hate to put it bluntly like this, but I don't think you should read any of that Industrial Org stuff. Take a look at Steve Keen's new book,

Re: Microeconomics of cornering

2003-08-02 Thread Devine, James
/2003 9:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Microeconomics of cornering I don't know of any technical papers on corners. On JSTOR, a collection of the most prestigious journals, up to the last five years or so, has

Re: Microeconomics of cornering

2003-08-02 Thread Devine, James
Message- From: Michael Pollak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 8/1/2003 10:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Microeconomics of cornering On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Eugene Coyle wrote: Are you

Re: Microeconomics of cornering

2003-08-02 Thread Michael Perelman
] Sent: Fri 8/1/2003 9:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Microeconomics of cornering I don't know of any technical papers on corners. On JSTOR, a collection of the most prestigious journals, up to the last five years or so, has only one

Re: Microeconomics of cornering

2003-08-02 Thread Michael Pollak
On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Devine, James wrote: this seems related to the model often used in industrial organization of the dominant firm facing a competitive fringe. The firm takes the supply curve (quantity supplied at each price) of the competitive fringe for granted and then acts as if it were

Re: Microeconomics of cornering

2003-08-02 Thread Devine, James
: [PEN-L] Microeconomics of cornering On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Devine, James wrote: this seems related to the model often used in industrial organization of the dominant firm facing a competitive fringe. The firm takes the supply curve

Re: Microeconomics of cornering

2003-08-02 Thread Michael Perelman
. Jim -Original Message- From: Michael Pollak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 8/2/2003 6:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Microeconomics of cornering On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Devine, James wrote: this seems

Re: Microeconomics of cornering

2003-08-02 Thread Eugene Coyle
I hate to put it bluntly like this, but I don't think you should read any of that Industrial Org stuff. Take a look at Steve Keen's new book, Debunking Economics where he takes apart that stuff, including Stigler, et. al. He also has a web site, I think it is WWW.debunkingeconomics where he

Re: Microeconomics of cornering

2003-08-02 Thread Michael Perelman
Stigler's story fits the US Steel behavior fairly well. They set prices sort of the way that Jim said, then gradually tried to buy out competitors rather than do anythin to modernize. Steve Keen's book is a good recommendation. On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 09:16:36PM -0700, Eugene Coyle wrote: I

Microeconomics of cornering

2003-08-01 Thread Michael Pollak
Is there a good book on article on gaming markets? The economics of monopoly are handled in Economics 101. But Opec had gotten me thinking about the economics of cornering, i.e., if a producer is not a monopoly supplier but simply a predominant one. Say a consortium controls 30% of output, and

Re: Microeconomics of cornering

2003-08-01 Thread Michael Perelman
I don't know of any technical papers on corners. On JSTOR, a collection of the most prestigious journals, up to the last five years or so, has only one economics article with corners in the title. Towards a History of Lost Corners in the World . Jan Vansina. The Economic History Review, New

Re: Microeconomics of cornering

2003-08-01 Thread Eugene Coyle
Are you thinking of cornering per se or simply gaming markets? If the latter, I suggest you think in terms of dynamic behavior rather than supply and demand curves. What manipulators are doing is not trying to skim a profit for a brief period but rather to set up a long term control. this usually

Re: Microeconomics of cornering

2003-08-01 Thread Michael Pollak
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Eugene Coyle wrote: Are you thinking of cornering per se or simply gaming markets? I guess neither cornering nor gaming nor fixing exactly describes what I'm interested in. I'm interested specifically in raising the price of a commodity by restricting how much you supply in