On Perfect Competition as Equilibrium Theory

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On Perfect Competition as Equilibrium Theory M. Ali Khan∗ The Johns Hopkins University This essay is dedicated to the memory of Paul A. Samuelson This paper is being circulated as a background paper for the author's Lecture “Development economics and comparative economic systems: a South Asian exploration,” to be delivered at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Economics on December 24, 2011. The paper has been published, but in Italian, in Claudio Bartocci and Piergiorgio Odifreddi (Editors), La matematica, Volume 4, Einaudi, Rome, 2010.

• equilibrium of an economy
• probability theory
• results from the partial equilib- rium world of ceteris paribus to the real world of complex interactions
• solow-samuelson
• cournot point
• j. g. a.
• perfect competition
• unique vision of economic interaction
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