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Competition Policy and Patent Law under Uncertainty: Regulating Innovation by Geoffrey A. Manne 9780521766746
RRP: £91.99£82.41The regulation of innovation and the optimal design of legal institutions in an environment of uncertainty are two of the most important policy challenges of the twenty-first century. Innovation is critical to economic growth. Regulatory design decisions... -
Mission and Money: Understanding the University by Burton Allen Weisbrod 9780521735742
RRP: £30.99£25.46Mission and Money goes beyond the common focus on elite universities and examines the entire higher education industry, including the rapidly growing for-profit schools. The sector includes research universities, four-year colleges, two-year schools, and... -
Japan's Network Economy: Structure, Persistence, and Change by James R. Lincoln 9780521711890
RRP: £39.99£33.66Japan's economy has long been described as network-centric. A web of stable, reciprocated relations among banks, firms, and ministries, is thought to play an important role in Japan's ability to navigate smoothly around economic shocks. Now those... -
Dynamic Competition and Public Policy: Technology, Innovation, and Antitrust Issues by Jerry Ellig 9780521782500
RRP: £98.99£80.44Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Multinational Enterprise and Economic Analysis by Richard E. Caves 9780521677530
RRP: £37.99£31.31The third edition of Multinational Enterprise and Economic Analysis surveys the contributions that economic analysis has made to our understanding of why multinational enterprises exist and what consequences they have for the workings of the national and... -
Small Firms in the Japanese Economy by D.H. Whittaker 9780521664714
RRP: £38.99£32.28Now in paperback, this book considers the role of small firms in the Japanese economy and challenges established views of the Japanese economy, society and political economy. Japan's giant corporations are household names, and dominate our views of the... -
Paths of Innovation: Technological Change in 20th-Century America by David C. Mowery 9780521646536
RRP: £28.99£23.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Theory of Production: A Long-Period Analysis by Heinz D. Kurz 9780521588676
RRP: £50.99£43.42This compelling book contains a comprehensive analytical treatment of the theory of production in a long-period framework. Although the authors take a 'Classical' approach to their subject, the scope of investigation and methods employed should interest... -
The Economics of the Business Firm: Seven Critical Commentaries by Harold Demsetz 9780521588652
RRP: £38.99£32.28The essays in this volume discuss the theory of the business firm and its applications in economics. A leading analyst of industrial organization, Professor Demsetz first critically examines current debates on the existence, definition, and organization... -
Valuing Health Care: Costs, Benefits, and Effectiveness of Pharmaceuticals and Other Medical Technologies by Frank A. Sloan 9780521576468
RRP: £42.99£36.19Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Finance Capitalism and Germany's Rise to Industrial Power by Caroline Fohlin 9780521396608
RRP: £44.99£38.54Based on a wide array of data collected by the author, this book uses clear theoretically motivated economic analysis to explain the structure, performance, and influence of universal banks and securities markets on firms during industrialisation. The... -
Urban Economic Theory: Land Use and City Size by Masahisa Fujita 9780521396455
RRP: £44.99£38.14This book examines the economic reasons why people choose to live where they live and develops, through analysis of the bid rent function, a unified theory of urban land use and city size. The first part of the book explicates the basic theory of urban... -
The Economic Theory of Product Differentiation by John Beath 9780521335522
RRP: £37.99£31.31There are few industries in modern market economies that do not manufacture differentiated products. This book provides a systematic explanation and analysis of the widespread prevalence of this important category of products. The authors concentrate on... -
Capital and Labour on the Kimberley Diamond Fields, 1871-1890 by Robert Vicat Turrell 9780521333542
RRP: £120.00£103.07This academic history of diamond mining in Kimberley is a major study of the beginning of South Africa's mineral revolution. It includes the first analysis of the formation of De Beers Consolidated Mines, one of the most successful companies ever to have... -
Building High-Tech Clusters: Silicon Valley and Beyond by Timothy F. Bresnahan 9780521143486
RRP: £39.99£33.66This book was first published in 2004. National economic growth is fueled by the development of high technology clusters such as Silicon Valley. The contributors examine the founding of ten clusters that have been successful at an early stage of growth... -
Profits in the Long Run by Dennis C. Mueller 9780521101592
RRP: £42.99£36.59Profits in the Long Run asks two questions: Are there persistent differences in profitability across firms? If so, what accounts for them? This book answers these questions using data for the 1000 largest US manufacturing firms in 1950 and 1972. It finds... -
Critical Essays on Piero Sraffa's Legacy in Economics by Heinz D. Kurz 9780521081641
RRP: £43.99£37.56This collection offers a critical assessment of the published works of Piero Sraffa, one of the leading economists of the twentieth century, and their legacy for the economics profession. The topics covered explore Sraffa's interpretation of the... -
Analytical Studies in Transport Economics by Andrew F. Daughety 9780521070874
RRP: £37.99£31.31First published in 1985 and strongly quantitative in flavour, Analytical Studies in Transport Economics presents work that was at the frontier of research in the field of transport economics. Written by some of the leading scholars in this field, it... -
The Megacorp and Oligopoly: Micro Foundations of Macro Dynamics by Alfred S. Eichner 9780521068611
RRP: £42.99£36.19Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Manipulation on Trial: Economic Analysis and the Hunt Silver Case by Jeffrey C. Williams 9780521063470
RRP: £39.99£33.26The unprecedented rise and fall in silver's price during 1979 and 1980 resulted in charges against the Hunt brothers of Dallas of monopolization and market manipulation, charges which led to a lengthy trial. This book focuses on the economic analysis... -
The Economics of Mobile Telecommunications by Harald Gruber 9780521054652
RRP: £39.99£33.26The mobile telecommunications industry is one of the most rapidly growing sectors around the world. This book offers a comprehensive economic analysis of the main determinants of growth in the industry. Harald Gruber demonstrates the importance of... -
The Political Economy of Power Sector Reform: The Experiences of Five Major Developing Countries by David G. Victor 9780521100700
RRP: £44.99£38.14Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Regulating Big Business: Antitrust in Great Britain and America, 1880-1990 by Tony Freyer 9780521059749
RRP: £42.99£36.59In the late nineteenth century a new form of capitalism emerged in Great Britain and the United States. Before the revolutions in communication and transportation, the owners of firms managed the processes of production, distribution, transportation and... -
The Underground Economies: Tax Evasion and Information Distortion by Edgar L. Feige 9780521032841
RRP: £42.99£36.59The most disturbing aspects of the growth of underground economies are the interrelated problems of unreported and unrecorded income. A large and growing underground economy can thwart fiscal efforts to establish budget balance and may significantly... -
Corporate Governance: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives by Xavier Vives 9780521032032
RRP: £29.99£25.45Corporate governance is an active area of research and public debate. The recent generalization of 'shareholder value' ideas and institutional investment, the establishment of codes of best practice for boards of directors, and the controversy about... -
The Economics of Information Technology: An Introduction by Hal R. Varian 9780521844154
RRP: £54.00£48.50The Economics of Information Technology is a concise and accessible review of some of the important economic factors affecting information technology industries. These industries are characterized by high fixed costs and low marginal costs of production,... -
The Economics of Network Industries by Oz Shy 9780521800952
RRP: £101.00£82.41This book introduces upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers to the latest developments in network economics, one of the fastest-growing fields in all industrial organization. Network industries include the Internet, e-mail,... -
The Cooperative Nature of the Firm by Tatsuro Ichiishi 9780521059695
RRP: £37.99£31.31This book is an analysis of the modern economy's two major resource allocation mechanisms. The price mechanism has been subject to extensive examination by neoclassical economists, but there has been relatively little attention paid to the impact of the... -
International Comparisons of Electricity Regulation by Richard J. Gilbert 9780521030779
RRP: £48.99£41.47This book offers a most comprehensive characterization of the historical, institutional and economic forces affecting electricity regulation. Eminent economists organized by the University of California Energy Institute survey the USA, UK, Scandinavia,... -
Corporate Power, American Democracy, and the Automobile Industry by Stan Luger 9780521023610
RRP: £37.99£31.31This book offers a critical history of government policy toward the US automobile industry in order to assess the impact of the large corporation on American democracy. It offers the first book-length treatment of the power of the nation's largest... -
Cournot Oligopoly: Characterization and Applications by Andrew F. Daughety 9780521022842
RRP: £48.99£41.47Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Cournot's work, which Mark Blaug has characterized as 'a book that for sheer originality and boldness of conception has no equal in the history of economics thought', this volume focuses on the properties and uses of... -
Corporate Law and Economic Analysis by Lucian Arye Bebchuk 9780521022835
RRP: £55.99£46.92Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Dynamic Competition and Public Policy: Technology, Innovation, and Antitrust Issues by Jerry Ellig 9780521021814
RRP: £42.99£36.19During the 1990s, US antitrust policy began to take greater account of economic theories that emphasize the critical role of innovation and change in the competitive process. Several high-profile antitrust cases have focused on dynamic innovation issues... -
Pharmaceutical Innovation: Incentives, Competition, and Cost-Benefit Analysis in International Perspective by Frank A. Sloan 9780521874908
RRP: £53.99£44.39The pharmaceutical industry worldwide is a rapidly burgeoning industry contributing to growth of gross domestic product and employment. Technological change in this field has been very rapid, with many new products being introduced. For this reason in... -
Sports Economics by Roger D. Blair 9780521876612
RRP: £94.99£84.11Sports Economics, the most comprehensive textbook in the field by celebrated economist Roger D. Blair, focuses primarily on the business and economics aspects of major professional sports and the NCAA. It employs the basic principles of economics to... -
Innovation and Knowledge Creation in an Open Economy: Canadian Industry and International Implications by John R. Baldwin 9780521810869
RRP: £78.00£71.40This study of innovation - its intensity, the sources used for knowledge creation, and its impacts - is based on a comprehensive survey of innovation of Canadian manufacturing firms. Attention is paid to the different actors in the system, who both... -
The Economics of Network Industries by Oz Shy 9780521805001
RRP: £39.99£33.26This book introduces upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers to the latest developments in network economics, one of the fastest-growing fields in all industrial organization. Network industries include the Internet, e-mail,... -
To Profit or Not to Profit: The Commercial Transformation of the Nonprofit Sector by Burton Allen Weisbrod 9780521785068
RRP: £39.99£33.26Nonprofit organizations are increasingly resembling private firms in a transformation bringing with it a shift in financial dependence from charitable donation to commercial sales activity. This book, first published in 1998, examines the reasons and... -
Competition and Structure: The Political Economy of Collective Decisions: Essays in Honor of Albert Breton by Gianluigi Galeotti 9780521771337
RRP: £70.00£63.71The essays in this volume, written by well-known economists and other social scientists from North America, Europe and Australia, share to an unusual degree a common concern with the competitive mechanisms that underlie collective decisions and with the... -
Gambling in America: Costs and Benefits by Earl L. Grinols 9780521830133
RRP: £65.00£58.16Gambling in America carefully breaks ground by developing analytical tools to assess the benefits and costs of the economic and social changes introduced by casino gambling in monetary terms, linking them to individual households' utility and well-being...