研討日期

2014329  10:20 ~ 13:00

研究地點

台灣大學社會科學院   26教室

題目

On the origins of the concept of natural monopoly

作者

Manuela Mosca

文獻出處

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 15.2 (2008): 317-353

報告人

宋育

參加人員

黃鴻、蔡明芳、彭正浩、陳金盛、呂得成、周冰瑤、宋育芳、丁虹仁、吳尚弈、施

討論提要

In the history, the concept of “natural monopoly” and “economic scales” comes from different lines of thoughts. The author looked into the development of these two lines and pointed out how did these two types of ideas bound together to each other as they are presenting on our textbooks today. Understanding the difficulty to bind these two concepts up and knowing the debate over the connection of these two ideas, we’ll understand why there are different policy implications regarding to the phenomenon, “natural monopoly”.

備註

The author may improve the clarity of his article by making a graphic outline. Otherwise, the connection between the subtopics he gave is ambiguous.