How very nice, Humberto! In the last few days of my Intermediate
Microeconomics course this semester I developed a handout that
employed the terms: monopsony, oligopsony, monopsonistic competition
and polypsony. I derived these terms from Fritz Machlup, _The
Economics of Sellers Competition: Model Analysis of Sellers' Conduct_
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1952), pp. 126-32, where "Types of
Competition in Buying" are discussed. Machlup's sources aren't handy
for me at this moment but I suspect he was one of the first, if not
the first, to fully develop the parallelism between buyer
concentration and seller concentration.
Bruce Larson