Once unquestionably the world's leading economic and industrial power, the United States now views with growing dismay the impressive industrial efficiency, vigorous work ethics, and large American holdings of various other nations. Is the United States truly lagging in its ability to compete...

This paper combines increasing marginal cost and depreciation in a continuous-time model of a durable-goods monopolist. In contrast to the case of increasing marginal cost but no depreciation (analyzed by C. Kahn) and the case of depreciation with constant marginal cost (analyzed by E. Bond and...