Title: Readings in the economics of industrial organization.
Authors: Needham, Douglas.
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
Year: 1970
Subjects: Industrial management; Industrial organization (Economic theory)
Contents: Part I. Firms' Objectives. Theories of the firm : marginalist, behavioral, managerial / Fritz Machlup -- The motives of managers, environmental restraints, and the theory of managerial enterprise / William L. Baldwin -- Profit, growth and sales maximization / John Williamson -- The arithmetic of capital-budgeting decisions / Ezra Solomon -- Part II. Cost Conditions. Economies of scale in industrial plants / John Haldi and David Whitcomb -- Hierarchical control and optimum firm size / Oliver E. Williamson -- The economies of scale / George J. Stigler -- What does the survivor technique show about economies of scale? / William G. Sheperd -- Firm size and rate of growth / Stephen Hymer and Peter Pashigian -- Part I. Pricing Behavior. "Large" and "small" numbers in the theory of the firm / G.C. Archibald -- A theory of oligarchy / George J. Stigler -- New developments on the oligopoly front / Franco Modigliani -- Seller concentration, barriers to entry, and rates of return in thirty industries 1950-1960 / Michael Mann -- Part IV. Product Differentiation Activities. Market structure and the employment of scientists and engineers / F.M. Scherer -- Advertising and competition / Lester G. Telser -- Advertising, market structure and performance / William S. Comanor and Thomas A. Wilson -- The firm's decision process : an econometric investigation / Dennis C. Mueller -- A dissenting view of duopoly and spatial competition / Nicos E. Devletoglou -- Part V. Firms' Behavior and Public Policy. Information agreements : a problem in search of a policy / D.P. O'Brien and D. Swann -- Mergers and the market for corporate control / Henry G. Manne -- The economics of integration / George J. Stigler -- The economics of advertising / Harry G. Johnson -- Economic welfare and the allocation of resources for invention / Kenneth J Arrow.