Pioneers of Industrial Organization: How the Economics of Competition and Monopoly Took Shape
Henry W. de Jong, "Pioneers of Industrial Organization: How the Economics of Competition and Monopoly Took Shape"
English | ISBN: 1843764342 | 2007 | 352 pages | AZW3 | 1296 KB
English | ISBN: 1843764342 | 2007 | 352 pages | AZW3 | 1296 KB
This encyclopaedic work celebrates the scores of leading pioneers who created the modern economic field of industrial organization, at the heart of which lie competition and monopoly, the two great forces that drive modern markets. Their pioneering work has shaped the field's growing research as well as the past, present and future debates in Europe and America over several centuries. This landmark book includes authoritative entries on all the major figures in both Europe and North America.
Pioneers of Industrial Organization also reveals how public policies such as antitrust and regulation - and deregulation since the 1970s - can promote, or impede economic results and progress. Readers will find the intellectual pioneers, the theories and policies, and the debates, in all their variety herein. Some pioneers have been free-market advocates, others have been more protective of popular values, but all have strained to make the economic engine promote more wealth, progress and fairness. This book presents the people, ideas and debates with careful neutrality, and also with clear, concise writing.
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