The Economics of Services
Subtitle: Microfoundations, Development and Policy
By: Jan Owen Jansson, Professor Emeritus, Limköping University, Sweden
Edition: Second Edition.
Publisher: Edward Elgar; Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cheltenham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780857932174
Subjects: Service industries; Industrial policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-324) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: pt. I THE SERVICE ECONOMY IN PERSPECTIVE; title: 1.Two approaches to service sector definition and measurement; title: 2.Merit goods; title: pt. II MICROECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS; title: 3.Production costs of non-storable goods; title: 4.Distribution costs of non-transportable goods; title: 5.The basic trade-off and the resulting market areas; title: 6.Market forms and competition; title: 7.Supply and demand at the system level; title: 8.Welfare economics 1: Towards A-efficiency; title: 9.Welfare economics 2: Towards X-efficiency; title: pt. III URBANISATION AND SERVICE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT; title: 10.Unprecedented rise in the standard of living; title: 11.Structural change of the economy; title: 12.Urban service industries before the private car; title: 13.Mass motoring, enlargement of service markets and urban sprawl; title: 14.Towards sustainability of the service sector; title: pt. IV PUBLIC POLICY TOWARDS SERVICES; title: 15.Trust in economic growth cannot replace allocation policy; title: 16.Is cost-benefit analysis the answer?; title: Contents note continued: 17.Towards social balance in the consumption; title: 18.Increased employment for absolute want satisfaction; title: 19.The financial challenge; title: 20.Summary and conclusions.