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Markets and Organization

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  1. Richard Arena

    1. LATAPSES-CNRS, Valbonne, France

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  2. Christian Longhi

    1. LATAPSES-CNRS, Valbonne, France

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  • This book answers two questions: - What is a market economy? - How does a market economy work?

  • It covers the most recent developments in microeconomics, including "new microeconomics", industrial organization and institutional economics

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • R. Arena, C. Longhi
      Pages 1-19

  3. Markets and Organization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Consumer Sovereignty

      • Dominique Torre
      Pages 23-41

    3. “Free” Enterprise

      • Mario Amendola, Jean-Luc Gaffard
      Pages 43-59

    4. Free Market

      • Bruna Ingrao
      Pages 61-93

    5. Free Competition

      • Christian Longhi, Alain Raybaut
      Pages 95-124

    6. The Invisible Hand

      • Martin Currie
      Pages 125-140

    7. Laissez Faire

      • Sergio Bruno
      Pages 141-166

  4. Markets and Organization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. Information Institution and Evolution

      1. New Institutional and New Keynesian Economics
        • Martin Currie, Marcello Messori
        Pages 171-204
      2. Evolutionary Theories
        • Giovanni Dosi, Richard R. Nelson
        Pages 205-234

    3. Firms as Organizations

      1. Theories of the Firm
        • Jackie Krafft, Jacques-Laurent Ravix
        Pages 237-261
      2. Property and Control
        • Ludovic Ragni
        Pages 263-280
      3. Organizational Competencies and the Boundaries of the Firm
        • Giovanni Dosi, David J. Teece
        Pages 281-302
      4. Innovative Behaviour
        • Stéphane Ngo Maï, Michel Quéré
        Pages 303-322
      5. Financing the Firm
        • Christian Longhi
        Pages 323-346

    4. Markets as Institutions

      1. Auction Markets
        • Jean-Pierre Daloz
        Pages 349-365
      2. Product Markets
        • Stéphane Ngo Maï, Frank Sosthé
        Pages 367-380
      3. Service Markets
        • Jacques De Bandt
        Pages 381-398
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About this book

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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Editors and Affiliations

  • LATAPSES-CNRS, Valbonne, France

    Richard Arena, Christian Longhi

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Markets and Organization

  • Editors: Richard Arena, Christian Longhi

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72043-7

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin · Heidelberg 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-63810-0Published: 28 January 1998

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-72043-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 697

  • Topics: Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods

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