Markets and Organization

edited by Richard Arena, Christian Longhi

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

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Year of publication:	1998
Other Persons:	Arena, Richard (ed.) ; Longhi, Christian (ed.)
Publisher:	Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Subject:	Marktmechanismus \| Market mechanism \| Marktwirtschaft \| Market economy \| Industrieökonomik \| Industrial organization \| Mikroökonomik \| Microeconomics \| Neue Institutionenökonomik \| New institutional economics \| Theorie der Unternehmung \| Theory of the firm \| Wettbewerbstheorie \| Theory of competition
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

Extent:	Online-Ressource (VI, 697p. 20 illus) online resource
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	1. “What is a Market Economy ? ”Consumer Sovereignty -- “ Free “ Enterprise -- Free Market -- Free Competition -- The Invisible Hand -- Laissez-Faire -- 2. “How Does it Work ? ” -- Information, Institution, and Evolution -- New Institutional and New Keynesian Economics -- Evolutionary Theories -- Firms as Organizations -- Theories of the Firm -- Property and Control -- Organizational Competencies and the Boundaries of the Firms -- Innovative Behaviour -- Financing the Firm -- Markets as Institutions -- Auction Markets -- Product Markets -- Service Markets -- Credit Markets -- Financial Markets -- Labour Market(s) -- International Markets -- Competition and Cooperation -- Product Differentiation -- Regulation and Deregulation -- Competition Policy -- Vertical Integration and Vertical Restraints -- Inter-Firm Cooperative Agreements -- Local Systems of Production and Innovation -- Multinational Firms -- Internationalization of Firms through Cooperation -- References -- Contributors.
ISBN:	978-3-642-72043-7 ; 978-3-540-63810-0
Other identifiers:	10.1007/978-3-642-72043-7 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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