Abstract

The economic model of perfect competition depicts exchange as occurring between anonymous partners. Trade is anonymous because buyers and sellers are indifferent as to the identity of their trading partners. This characteristic of competitive exchange, sometimes called Jevons’ (1871) “Law of Indifference,” is implicit in the idea that commodities are homogeneous and traders care only about price.

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