… to a new systems competition. The goal of the old systems competition between communism
and … place amidst closed borders in the form of mutual observation, imitation and innovation. …

… other motivation for this second edition arose from increased appreciation of the ubiquity
of competition in living systems. This one process that connects a wide spectrum of biological …

… the ‘‘winner takes all’’ nature of Bertrand competition. Instead, as we show in the Appendix,
the general nature of the … -cost case carries over to Cournot competition, where firms at a cost …

… biggest dividend of a transparently competitive health care market, even given the other
defects in the system we have. What such a market might look like, and what might have …

… that the wrong kinds of competition have made a mess of the American health-care system.
… Fixing the system will require that the locus of competition shifts from ‘‘Who pays?’’ to ‘‘Who …

… true as the hypotheses from which they are deduced. If we admit the fact of unlimited competition,
we … This refuge will always be open to the latter-day defenders of the faith, as they are …

… feature of both the welfare and the competition state, and it has figured prominently in the …
international tax competition erodes the fiscal foundations of the welfare state. Many authors …

… or possibly replace the traditional … competition—the theory of platform markets and systems
approaches. Both frameworks model aspects of competition in interconnected systems in …

… With these considerations in mind, it seems likely that answers to a number of question are
worth knowing: (1) Will competition change the average level of the quality of care received …

… relations system on the whole have only begun to be examined and debated. Indeed, at
this point we know more about the organizations of the 21st century than we do about how the …