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most citedProfit Maximization, Industry Structure, and Competition: A critique of neoclassical theory

35 citations · 45 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

q-fin.GN2022

The Sign of Risk for Present Value of Future Losses

Brian P. Hanley, Steve Keen

In the ongoing debate over discount rates and climate change, William Nordhaus has championed a higher discount rate to account for risk. Nicholas Stern has championed a lower rate…

nlin.AO2013★ 2 cited

Comment on "On the proper behavior of atoms" by Paul Anglin

Russell K. Standish, Stephen L. Keen

Paul Anglin criticised our analysis of the neoclassical theory of the firm, but makes a number of incorrect assertions about our assumptions. We correct these misunderstandings, bu…

nlin.AO2011★ 2 cited

Rationality in the Theory of the Firm

Russell K. Standish, Stephen L. Keen

We have previously presented a critique of the standard Marshallian theory of the firm, and developed an alternative formulation that better agreed with the results of simulation.…

physics.soc-ph2008★ 1 cited

Romania in a post-credit crunch world? A cautionary tale from Australia and America

Carmen Costea, Steve Keen

We present data on debt accumulation in Australia and the United States, and tentative data on Romania, to pose the question of whether Romania might experience a credit crunch as…

nlin.AO2006★ 35 cited

Profit Maximization, Industry Structure, and Competition: A critique of neoclassical theory

Steve Keen, Russell K. Standish

Neoclassical economics has two theories of competition between profit-maximizing firms (Marshallian and Cournot-Nash) that start from different premises about the degree of strateg…

nlin.AO2004★ 5 cited

Emergent Effective Collusion in an Economy of Perfectly Rational Competitors

Russell K. Standish, Steve Keen

We consider a simple model of rational agents competing in a single product market described by simple linear demand curve. Contrary to accepted economic theory, the agents' produc…