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- Title
MONOPOLISTIC DISCRIMINATION IN THE CRANBERRY INDUSTRY.
- Authors
Hyson, Charles D.; Sanderson, Fred H.
- Abstract
This article focuses on monopolistic practices in the cranberry industry in the U.S. The general principles of the theory of price discrimination are by now well understood, and several writers have applied these principles to the analysis of specific problems in the field of agricultural marketing. In some instances statistical demand curves have been used for this purpose, but so far as the writers are aware, no comprehensive statistical test has as yet been applied to the actual operations of a marketing monopoly. The first attempts at commercial cultivation of cranberries were made in the Cape Cod region of Massachusetts around the beginning of the nineteenth century. By 1900, about 24,300 acres were under cultivation, nearly all of it in the States of Massachusetts, New Jersey and Wisconsin. Between 1900 and 1942, the aggregate acreage in the United States has been expanded only slightly, reaching 28,240 acres in 1942. However, higher yields resulting from more efficient methods of cultivation have brought about a notable increase in total production. There are at present probably not more than about 1700 commercial growers in the U.S.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CRANBERRY industry; MONOPOLISTIC competition; BERRY industry; MONOPOLIES; MARKETING
- Publication
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1945, Vol 59, Issue 3, p330
- ISSN
0033-5533
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1884569