# Imperfect Competition

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Robinson analyzed firms facing downward-sloping demand rather than taking price as given. The framework clarified monopoly power, markups, price discrimination, and monopsony—the buyer-side counterpart of monopoly. It showed that wages and prices may reflect bargaining and market structure, not simply marginal productivity under perfect competition.

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