The Structure of European Industry

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Concentration and Competition in Food and Drinks Manufacturing and Distribution

   • Remo Linda

   Pages 1-37

3. The European Beer Industry: Concentration and Competition

   • Maria T. Brouwer

   Pages 39-56

4. The Pulp and Paper Industry: Structure and Behaviour

   • Fabio Gobbo

   Pages 57-91

5. The Cement Industry: Studies in Public and Private Control

   • Patrizio Bianchi, Dennis Colenutt, Denys Gribbin

   Pages 93-124

6. Structure and Performance in the West European Steel Industry: A Historical Perspective

   • Bo Carlsson

   Pages 125-157

7. Hard Coal Mining in the EEC Countries, Especially in Germany

   • Hans Otto Lenel

   Pages 159-185

8. The Automobile Industry

   • William James Adams

   Pages 187-207

9. Competition and Economic Power in the Pharmaceutical Industry

   • Henk Wouter de Jong

   Pages 209-235

10. The Aerospace Industry: Problems and Policies

    • Keith Hartley

    Pages 237-255

11. The Computer and Data Processing Industry

    • M. Delapierre, L. A. Gérard-Varet, J. B. Zimmermann

    Pages 257-288

12. Public Enterprise in Western Europe and the United States

    • William G. Shepherd

    Pages 289-320

13. Back Matter

    Pages 321-322

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The Structure of European Industry is a collection of essays on the economic organization of industrial sectors in Europe, which may serve either of policy makers in business and in Government; and staff and students at Universities. The first group increasingly needs a focus on the longer-term developments of European industry, now that the positive (growth) effects of the economic integration of the sixties have worn off. Restructuring is the current catch word and nobody can deny the necessity and urgency of the task. But it has become a day-to-day affair and there may be a loss of perspective. The second group is growing up in an international environment and should be equipped accordingly. Many-faceted tasks are involved with serving either depending on the problems which differ according to industries. And here the bewildering complexity of the European industrial scenery strikes. Some of these industries are old fashioned; some are new; some are national in orientation; some have become integrated; some have a competitive structure; some are cartellized or heavily concentrated; some have been interfered with by national Governments, others were free from such policing; etc. Moreover, a number of industries show various combinations of these and other facets at the same time.

• competition
• competitiveness
• complexity
• distribution
• economic integration
• economy
• Germany
• growth
• integration
• international trade
• organization
• political economy
• production
• restructuring
• USA

• University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  H. W. Jong

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