Brossura

ISBN 10: 0133026884 ISBN 13: 9780133026887

Casa editrice: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994

To own or not to own? To make or to buy? To franchise or to manage? To contract long or to contract short? To trust or not to trust? To license or not to license? These and other questions are the subject matter of this introduction to the theory of economic organization. This fully updated third edition includes: new developments in the property rights theory of the firm; further extended treatment of co-operative and mutual forms of enterprise; entirely new sections on transactions cost economics and public policy; and new chapters on the economics of privatisation and the regulation of "natural monopoly". In addition, transaction cost, property rights and agency approaches are contrasted, and Austrian and evolutionary criticisms of standard theory are explored. The author applies these theories to a wide range of questions from the choice of piece rates or time rates in contracting to the debate on Anglo-American versus other "varieties of capitalism". Public policy in the fields of regulation and privatisation is also considered using the same framework.

From the Publisher:

This new edition represents a substantially revised and extended version of this classic textbook on the theory of the firm. Theories of enterprise, organisation, exchange and evolution in the face of imperfect information in the business setting inform the argument throughout.

About the Author:

Martin Ricketts, Professor of Economic Organisation and Dean of Humanities, University of Buckingham, UK