Joe Bain

Après des études à l'UCLA, il passe son doctorat à Harvard en 1940. Il fera l'essentiel de sa carrière à l'Université de Berkeley où il enseignera notamment l'économie industrielle. Ses deux œuvres majeures sont Barriers to New Competition où il développe l'idée de barrière à l'entrée et son classique "Industrial Organization" (économie industrielle) de 1959. Il servit aussi en 1960 comme directeur des études à la California Water Industry. En 1982 il a été élu Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association et reconnu comme le père de l'économie industrielle.

• "The Profit Rate as Measure of Monopoly Power", 1941 Quaterly Journal of Economics.
• "Market Classifications in Modern Price Theory", 1942, Quaterly Journal of Economics
• The Economics of the Pacific Coast Petroleum Industry, 1944.
• Pricing, Distribution and Employment: Economics of an enterprise system, 1948
• "Price and Production Policies", In: Howard Ellis (Ed.), A Survey of Contemporary Economics (Philadelphia: Blakiston, 1948, p. 129-173
• "A Note on Pricing in Monopoly and Oligopoly", 1949, American Economic Review
• "Relation of Profit Rate to Industry Concentration: American manufacturing, 1936-40", 1951, Quaterly Journal of Economics
• "Conditions of Entry and the Emergence of Monopoly", 1954, in Chamberlin, editor, Monopoly and Competition
• "Economies of Scale, Concentration and the Condition of Entry in Twenty Manufacturing Industries", 1954, American Economic Review
• Barriers to New Competition: their character and consequences in manufacturing industries, 1956.
• Industrial Organization, 1959.
• "Chamberlin's Impact on Microeconomic Theory", in Kuenne, editor, Monopolistic Competition Theory
• International Differences in Industrial Structure, 1966
• Northern California's Water Industry, with R.E. Caves and J. Margolis, 1966.
• Essays on Economic Development, 1970.
• Essays on Price Theory and Industrial Organization, 1972.
• Environmental Decay: Economic causes and remedies, 1973.
• "Structure versus Conduct as Indicators of Market Performance", 1986, Antitrust Law and Econ Rev
• Industrial Organization: a treatise, with T.D. Qualls, 1987.

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