Sunk Costs and Market Structure: Price Competition, Advertising, and the Evolution of Concentration

Year 1991
Pages 577

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This edition of Sunk Costs and Market Structure: Price Competition, Advertising, and the Evolution of Concentration by John Sutton is a general-interest book whose subject is easy to identify. The copy shown here is 1991 • Mit Pr • 577 pages.

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