The Great Reversal

The Great Reversal
Author: Thomas Philippon
Publisher: Belknap Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2019-10-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0674237544

A Financial Times Book of the Year A ProMarket Book of the Year “Superbly argued and important...Donald Trump is in so many ways a product of the defective capitalism described in The Great Reversal. What the U.S. needs, instead, is another Teddy Roosevelt and his energetic trust-busting. Is that still imaginable? All believers in the virtues of competitive capitalism must hope so.” —Martin Wolf, Financial Times “In one industry after another...a few companies have grown so large that they have the power to keep prices high and wages low. It’s great for those corporations—and bad for almost everyone else.” —David Leonhardt, New York Times “Argues that the United States has much to gain by reforming how domestic markets work but also much to regain—a vitality that has been lost since the Reagan years...His analysis points to one way of making America great again: restoring our free-market competitiveness.” —Arthur Herman, Wall Street Journal Why are cell-phone plans so much more expensive in the United States than in Europe? It seems a simple question, but the search for an answer took one of the world’s leading economists on an unexpected journey through some of the most hotly debated issues in his field. He reached a surprising conclusion: American markets, once a model for the world, are giving up on healthy competition. In the age of Silicon Valley start-ups and millennial millionaires, he hardly expected this. But the data from his cutting-edge research proved undeniable. In this compelling tale of economic detective work, we follow Thomas Philippon as he works out the facts and consequences of industry concentration, shows how lobbying and campaign contributions have defanged antitrust regulators, and considers what all this means. Philippon argues that many key problems of the American economy are due not to the flaws of capitalism or globalization but to the concentration of corporate power. By lobbying against competition, the biggest firms drive profits higher while depressing wages and limiting opportunities for investment, innovation, and growth. For the sake of ordinary Americans, he concludes, government needs to get back to what it once did best: keeping the playing field level for competition. It’s time to make American markets great—and free—again.

The Structure of American Industry

The Structure of American Industry
Author: Walter Adams
Publisher:
Total Pages: 342
Release: 1995
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780023008337

Key features include: NEW -- Four new industries are now represented, including health care, cigarettes, telecommunications, and commercial banking. Al of the case studies carried over from the previous edition have been significantly revised and updated. NEW -- The industry studies on computers and college sports have been completely rewritten for this edition. Each industry is framed within the structure-conduce-performance approach to industrial organization. The uniqueness of each industry and important international issues are examined throughout the text. Industries included in this edition are agriculture, petroleum, automobiles, beer, computers, college sports, airlines, motion picture entertainment, cigarettes, health care, telecommunications, and commercial banking.

Catalogue of Publications Issued by the Government of the United States

Catalogue of Publications Issued by the Government of the United States
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1012
Release: 1941
Genre: Government publications
ISBN:

February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index

Research Handbook on Abuse of Dominance and Monopolization

Research Handbook on Abuse of Dominance and Monopolization
Author: Pınar Akman
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2023-01-20
Genre: Law
ISBN: 183910872X

This Research Handbook offers a comprehensive and state-of-the-art collection on the competition law (antitrust) prohibition of abuse of a dominant position and monopolization. It draws from the long and influential traditions of leading jurisdictions such as the European Union and the United States to analyse applicable rules and policy in these jurisdictions. It also takes a comparative approach to identify common threads and differences.

The Nature of the Firm

The Nature of the Firm
Author: Oliver E. Williamson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1993
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780195083569

This volume features a series of essays which arose from a conference on economics, addressing the question: what is the nature of the firm in economic analysis? This paperback edition includes the Nobel Lecture of R.N. Case.

Handbook of Production Economics

Handbook of Production Economics
Author: Subhash C. Ray
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 1797
Release: 2022-06-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9811034559

This three-volume handbook includes state-of-the-art surveys in different areas of neoclassical production economics. Volumes 1 and 2 cover theoretical and methodological issues only. Volume 3 includes surveys of empirical applications in different areas like manufacturing, agriculture, banking, energy and environment, and so forth.