Markets and Organization

by Richard Arena (Editor), Christian Longhi (Editor)

Overview

Market economy has become today the predominant economic system in the world. One of the tasks of the book is to define analytically the essential features of a market economy. The other purpose is to investigate the very working of a market economy which rests on firms defined as organizations and markets seen as institutions. It also supposes a renewed conception of cooperation and competition. The book will permit the reader to acquire a fresh view on market economies, stressing simultaneously their unity and diversity. It will also interest specialists of microeconomics as well as industrial organization, economics of technology and institutional economcis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540638100
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	03/05/1998
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998
Pages:	697
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

What is a market Economy?: D. Torre: Consumer Sovereignty; M. Amendola, J-L. Gaffard: 'Free' Enterprise; B. Ingrao: Free market; C. Longhi, A. Raybaut: Free Competition; M. Currie: The Invisible Hand; S. Bruno: Laissez-Faire.- How Does it Work?: M. Currie: New Institutional and New Keynesian Economics; G. Dosi, R. Nelson: Evolutionary Theories; J-L. Ravix, J. Krafft: Theories of the Firm; L. Ragni: Property and Control; G. Dosi, D.J. Teece: Organizational Competitencies and the Boundaries of the Firms; S. NgoMai, M. Quéré: Innovative Behaviours; C. Longhi: Financing the Firm; J-P. Daloz: Auction Markets; S. NgoMai, F. Sosthé: Product Markets; J. De Bandt: Service Markets; N. Levratto: Credit Markets; G. Mondello: Financial Markets; P. Piacentini: Labor Market(s); D. Elson: International Markets; P.P. Saviotti: Product Differentiation; S. Bruno, V. Amendola: Regulation and Deregulation; M. Glais: Competition Policy; J. Krafft: Vertical Integration and Vertical Restraints; P. Dulbecco: Inter-Firms Cooperative Agreements; M. Quéré, L. Ragni: Local Systems of Production and Innovation; M. Rainelli: Multinational Firms; C. Charbit: Firms Internationalization through Cooperation.