Comments on the Translation -- 1 Stating the Economic Problem and Basic Principles -- 2 General Analysis of Typical Market Structures -- 3 Analysis of the Relationship between Dual Markets and Multiple Markets -- 4 Dyopolistic Market Share Ranking -- 5 Landmark History of Economic Thought -- 6 Market Structure and Economic Policy -- Mathematical Appendix -- Bibliography.

In his book „Marktform und Gleichgewicht“, published initially in 1934, Heinrich von Stackelberg presented his groundbreaking leadership model of firm competition. In a work of great originality and richness, he described and analyzed a market situation in which the leader firm moves first and the follower firms then move sequentially. This game-theoretic model, now widely known as Stackelberg competition, has had tremendous impact on the theory of the firm and economic analysis in general, and has been applied to study decision-making in various fields of business. As the first translation of von Stackelberg’s book into English, this volume makes his classic work available in its original form to an English-speaking audience for the very first time.