The model of perfect competition is one of the most famous, most important, and most misunderstood concepts in … economics. Rather than aiming to be a full-blown model of real-world competitive markets, the perfect competition model isolates … only feature of market competition, but it plays a central role regarding to its virtues, and understanding the working …

competition years ago, the water sector remains the last bastion of vertically integrated monopolies. This book analyzes the … potentials and limitations of different options for competition in the water sector, consistently applying the disaggregated … impacts on water quality due to the introduction of competition are reviewed. The analysis is illustrated by several …