This paper examines the impact of quantity-discounted transportation rates on location patterns of oligopolistic competition with sequential entry. When transportation rates are constant, Hwang and Mai (1990) show that the entrant locate at the same point as the existing firms if the production...

The scientific contribution of W. S. Jevons in the area of general demand theory has been a matter of some debate over the past century. Recently published documents and correspondence, together with Jevons's well-known Theory of Political Economy (1871), sketch a new drawing of his achievements...

This paper discusses an early application of differential calculus in the analysis of constrained production and utility maximization problems. In his letter of July 1978 to W. S. Jevons, which has only recently been published, H. Westergaard demonstrated the importance and fruitfulness of the...