Pioneers of industrial organization : how the economics of competition and monopoly took shape

Author(s)

• Jong, H. W. (Henry Wouter) de
• Shepherd, William G.

Bibliographic Information

Pioneers of industrial organization : how the economics of competition and monopoly took shape

edited by Henry W. de Jong, William G. Shepherd

E. Elgar, c2007

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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. For all those interested in modern economic progress and its problems, this book provides deep insight as well as great personal colour. It will be an essential source of reference for students, researchers and professors of economics, as well as those concerned with the historical foundations or the conceptual and thematic developments in industrial organization.

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction to the Pioneers and the Issues William G. Shepherd and Henry W. de Jong PART I: MARKET THEORY AND ITS PIONEERS IN EUROPE 1. Introduction to Market Theory and its European Pioneers Henry W. de Jong 2. Market Theory in Europe Henry W. de Jong A. Adam Smith (1723-1790) Henry W. de Jong 3. Economists from the German Language Area (Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries) Henry W. de Jong A. Heinrich von Stackelberg (1905-1946) Peter Oberender and Thomas Rudolf B. Ernst Heusz (1922-) Peter Oberender and Thomas Rudolf C. Erich Hoppmann (1923-) Peter Oberender and Thomas Rudolf D. Erhard Kantzenbach (1931-) Peter Oberender and Thomas Rudolf 4. Market Theory in the Low Countries Henry W. de Jong A. Henk Wilm Lambers (1916-2004) Henry W. de Jong 5. French Political Economy about Industrial Matters Jacques De Bandt A. Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832) Jacques De Bandt B. Francois Perroux (1903-1987) Jacques De Bandt 6. Industrial Economics in Italy Patrizio Bianchi 7. The Contributions of Three English Economists to the Development of Industrial Economics Michael A. Utton A. Alfred Marshall (1842-1924) Henry W. de Jong 8. Industrial Economics in Scandanavia, 1880-1980 Nicolai J. Foss and Peter Mollgaard PART II: PIONEERS OF THE FIELD IN THE USA AND CANADA 9. Introduction to the Pioneers in North America William G. Shepherd SECTION 1 INDIVIDUAL PIONEERS IN THE USA AND CANADA 10. To the 1930s A. Charles Ellet Jr F.M. Scherer B. Henry Carter Adams Harry M. Trebing C. John Bates Clark John Howard Brown D. Jeremiah Whipple Jenks John Howard Brown E. John Maurice Clark William L. Baldwin F. George Ward Stocking Willard F. Mueller G. Martin G. Glaeser Harry M. Trebing 11. The 1930s A. Gardiner C. Means John Howard Brown B. Edward Hastings Chamberlin William L. Baldwin C. James C. Bonbright Harry M. Trebing D. Harold Hotelling John Howard Brown E. Edward S. Mason William G. Shepherd 12. The 1940s and 1950s A. Joseph A. Schumpeter F.M. Scherer B. Morris A. Adelman William G. Shepherd C. John Kenneth Galbraith William G. Shepherd D. Alfred E. Kahn William G. Shepherd E. Walter Adams James A. Brock F. Joe S. Bain Richard E. Caves G. Willard Fritz Mueller Bruce Marion H. Carl Kaysen William G. Shepherd I. Donald F. Turner William G. Shepherd J. George Joseph Stigler Sam Peltzman K. William Jack Baumol Stephen Martin L. John Robert Meyer John C. Spychalski 13. The 1960s to the Mid-1980s A. Richard E. Caves William S. Comanor B. Leland L. Johnson William G. Shepherd C. Leonard W. Weiss F.M. Scherer D. Jacob Schmookler F.M. Scherer E. Frederic M. Scherer John E. Kwoka F. William G. Shepherd John Howard Brown G. Harvey J. Leibenstein W.G. Shepherd H. William S. Comanor William G. Shepherd I. Oliver E. Williamson William G. Shepherd J. Harold Demsetz William G. Shepherd K. Paul W. MacAvoy William G. Shepherd L. Harry M. Trebing William G. Shepherd M. Dennis Cary Mueller Stephen Martin N. Roger G. Noll William G. Shepherd O. Sam Peltzman William G. Shepherd P. Richard Schmalensee William G. Shepherd Q. A. Michael Spence F.M. Scherer R. Robert D. Willig William G. Shepherd S. Joseph E. Stiglitz F.M. Scherer Index

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• NCID: BA82432328
• ISBN:
  • 9781843764342
• LCCN: 2006021904
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cheltenham, U.K.
• Pages/Volumes: xxxii, 309 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HD2326
  • DC22 : 338.6/048
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Industrial organization (Economic theory)
  • LCSH : Economists -- Biography