Growth, Industrial Organization and Economic Generalities - Hardcover

William J. Baumol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1843763508 ISBN 13: 9781843763505

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

This compendium of essays brings together some of William Baumol’s most distinguished and acclaimed papers with some that are more rare, including a discussion of the growth and innovation mechanism that accounts for the unprecedented growth performance of the market economies. Among many other papers of note are a discussion of appropriate regulatory principles for privatized and deregulated firms, and a survey of the accomplishments of economists in the past century and the past millennium. This collection includes the following essays:

· Productivity Growth, Convergence and Welfare: What the Long-Run Data Show
· On the Possibility of Continuing Expansion of Finite Resources
· Social Wants and Dismal Science: The Curious Case of the Climbing Costs
· Towards Microeconomics of Innovation: Growth Engine Hallmark of Market Economies
· Industrial Organization, Regulation and Privatization
· Use of Antitrust to Subvert Competition
· Predation and the Logic of the Average Variable Cost Test.

The papers engage with an eclectic range of issues and represent a vignette of the author’s varied contributions to the economic literature.

About this title

About the Author:

William J. Baumol, Professor of Economics, New York University and Professor Emeritus, Princeton University

Review:

`Reading this collection, one is reminded not only of the breadth of Baumol's contributions to economics, but also of how fine a writer he can be. The explorations of entrepreneurship and growth are particularly broad and interesting.' -- Michael Waterson, University of Warwick, UK

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1843763508
• ISBN 13: 9781843763505
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320