Perfect competition

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In his 1987 entry on 'Perfect Competition' in The New Palgrave, the author reviewed the question of the perfectness of perfect competition, and gave four alternative formalisations rooted in the so-called Arrow-Debreu-Mckenzie model. That entry is now updated for the second edition to include work done on the subject during the last twenty years. A fresh assessment of this literature is offered, one that emphasises the independence assumption whereby individual agents are not related except through the price system. And it highlights a 'linguistic turn' whereby Hayek's two fundamental papers on 'division of knowledge' are seen to have devastating consequences for this research programme.

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Ali Khan, M. (2007). Perfect competition. PIDE Working Papers, (15), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501365287.2008

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