> A first game-theoretic model with Bertrand behaviour was published in the > early fifties of the last century by Nash and others. Bertrand's review is > mentioned in this article, but I have the strong feeling that none of these > authors read Bertrand's review. They were echoing Edgeworth and put it in a > new framework. You are quite right on that. > My question is: who coined the name "Bertrand model" for a model with a >price competing oligopolist? You might have a look at this paper of mine: "The 'Cournot-Bertrand Debate': a Historical Perspective", History of Political Economy, fall 1992 But Bertrand's name keeps being associated with this model, maybe because theoreticians don't read historians and they have more power to name concepts than historians. Jean Magnan de Bornier