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MAS, Fernando Francisco. Coase, Schumpeter and the pro-monopoly economic foundations of managerial strategy. Ciclos hist. econ. soc. [online]. 2023, vol.34, n.60, pp.6-6. ISSN 1851-3735.

The origin of the monopoly impulse in the managerial discourse of our time, which is oriented according to the principle of competitiveness, must be traced genealogically in the readings derived from the works of two economists of the early 20th century: Ronald Coase and Joseph Schumpeter. This article resorts to a critical socio-history of the main microeconomic theories of the last century to explain the current "ethical justification" of monopoly in the field of strategic management. It seeks to expand and complete the Foucauldian study of neoliberal microeconomics as rationality, which makes competition its central reflexive principle. Since the middle of the last century, however, a series of developments and reformulations in the theoretical field of economics and management have given rise to the principle of the strategic competitiveness of companies, which distanced itself from the principle of economic competition in the markets. Thus, unlike the competition of "early neo-liberalism" studied by Michel Foucault in the late 1970s, competitiveness will be grounded in late microeconomics and strategic management that emerged in the 1980s. These theories will be more akin to the monopolistic phenomenon than to perfect competition, the foundations of which can be traced back to a re-reading of Coasian and Schumpeterian contributions in this direction.

Palavras-chave : Coase; Schumpeter; Monopoly; Genealogy; Management.