Competition in the Rayon Industry

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Jesse Markham carefully examines the behavior of prices and output in the rayon industry in the light of contemporary theory of oligopolistic markets and existing definitions. His book is at once the first economic study of the United States rayon industry and a case study in the control of a market by the few.