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Joe S. Bain, 1912-1991

 
Portrait of J.S. Bain

Joe S. Bain Jr, was a professor of economics at the University of California-Berkeley.

Originating from Spokane, Washington, Joe S. Bain Jr. obtained his B.A. from UCLA and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1940.  Bain joined the faculty at Berkeley in 1939, and remained there until his retirement in 1975. 

Bain's contributions were mainly in industrial organization.

 

  


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Major works of Joe Bain

  • "The Profit Rate as Measure of Monopoly Power", 1941 QJE
  • "Market Classifications in Modern Price Theory", 1942, QJE
  • The Economics of the Pacific Coast Petroleum Industry, 1944.
  • Pricing, Distribution and Employment: Economics of an enterprise system, 1948.
  • "A Note on Pricing in Monopoly and Oligopoly", 1949, AER
  • ":Relation of Profit Rate to Industry Concentration: American manufacturing, 1936-40", 1951, QJE
  • "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, AER
  • 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.
  • "Sturcture 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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