Talk:Cournot competition

message: It seems to me that the goods should be non-homogeneous (but still competing, obviously) since the strategy for one firm is to monopolize its share of the market.  With homogeneous goods, buyers would flock to the cheaper version.  I like to think of it in terms of Macintoshes vs. PCs-- they're non-homogeneous, but both sides are monopolizing their market share.  If I'm wrong, why should homogeneous products be central to Cournot competition?--134.173.58.54 04:16, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The intercept of the demand curve.radek (talk) 04:19, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Homogeneous? 

message: This page has been tagged as being too technical for most readers to understand since March of 2009, but it does not seem too technical to me.  Unless someone objects, I am going to wait seven days and then remove the tag. Guy Macon (talk) 02:09, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Removing tag now. Guy Macon (talk) 18:24, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too technical for most readers to understand? 

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message: Hello – I’ve been reading the Recherches and found Cournot’s price model a stumbling block. I looked for guidance in online resources (including Wikipedia) to no avail. Wikipedia’s explanation is no worse than many others; but for some reason Cournot’s simple argument establishing the nature of equilibrium under his model has been transmogrified into something five times as long and five times as complicated. I’ve gone back to Cournot’s own reasoning. Much of what I’ve written is little more than a translation.
The previous version justified Cournot’s assumption of equal prices as an equilibrium condition. (i) He is deriving the properties of equilibrium, so should not assume them. (ii) In particular, he analyses disequilibrium positions in which D1≠D2, seeking to show that they are unstable. If his argument relied on an assumption which held only in positions of equilibrium, then he would be arguing from contradictory premises.
Anyway, I hope my new version meets with approval. Colin.champion (talk) 08:11, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: It would have been better if I’d written my version as a draft in user space and invited comment. It didn’t occur to me to do so; sorry, I wasn’t intending to impose a fait accompli. Colin.champion (talk) 20:05, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  New version