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Fishing for perfect competition

Geoff Riley

16th February 2015

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In the early 1990s Kathryn Grady of Brandeis University went in search of prefect competition at Fulton Fish Market in downtown New York - what she found was quite different.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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