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In part a history of the rise and decline of monopoly in the metal container industry and an analysis of its relations with the tin-plate market, and, in part, an application of economic theory to these markets, showing how prices are determined in a complex environmental structure, this is a distinguished addition to the studies on competition and monopoly in American industry financed by the Merrill Foundation. James McKie’s major theme is market power—how it originated, how it developed in late years, how the dominant firms, U.S. Steel, American Can, and Continental Can, have used it, how it has become more diffused, and how public policy in the shape of antitrust action has attempted to reduce it. He discusses the manufacture, marketing, and buying of tin plate and tin cans; the economics of vertical integration, economies of scale in can production and substitute competition. Certain market practices in the industry, such as price discrimination, exclusive dealing and tying contracts are discussed against the background of the 1949-1950 antitrust case.This survey may provide a test case of whether workable competition is possible at all in what has become an oligopoly with a h
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- Author
- McKie, James W.
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
- Published
- 1959
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674429758
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Business, Markets