Back to matchesWe found a matchYour institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.TitleThe Optimal Balance between Economies of Scale and Variety of Products: An Illustrative Model.AuthorsMeade, J. E.AbstractThe present article attempts through a greatly simplified example to give the more humdrum economist an intuitive sense of the economic factors which lie behind the analysis.SubjectsMONOPOLISTIC competition; COMPETITION; ECONOMIES of scale; INDUSTRIAL costs; MONOPOLIESPublicationEconomica, 1974, Vol 41, Issue 164, p359ISSN0013-0427Publication typeArticleDOI10.2307/2553347