Revival: The Megacorp and Oligopoly: Micro Foundations of Macro Dynamics (1981)

Revival: The Megacorp and Oligopoly: Micro Foundations of Macro Dynamics (1981)
Author: Alfred S. Eicher
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2017-09-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351696742

This title was first published in 1976. This book provides both an explanation of the inflation which has bedeviled economic policy in the West since the end of World War II and a micro-economic theory to purge Keynesian models of the Walrasian strain derived from Marshall's Principles. By focusing on what is taken to be the representative business firm of the twentieth century - the large corporation or megacorp - the microeconomic model presented in the book reverses the usual assumptions of economic analysis. Instead of assuming the existence of firms with no control over prices, the book examines how the megacorp uses its pricing power to finance its own internal rate of growth. The result is a determinant model of how prices are set under the sort of oligopolistic conditions which prevail in most modern industries throughout the world.

The Megacorp and Macrodynamics

The Megacorp and Macrodynamics
Author: William Milberg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2016-09-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1315488922

These essays on Post-Keynesian economics were written expressly for a volume to honour the life and work of Alfred Eichner. The original countributions - that critically examine and extend ideas in Eichner's "The Macrodynamics of Advanced Market Economies" are organized in seven sections that correspond to areas of economics in which Eichner made a significant contribution. Part 1 deals with the megacorp, a theory of firm pricing and investment that was one of Eichner's most important contributions. Issues of productivity and technical change, that lie at the center of Eichner's macrodynamic model, are the focus of part 1 and parts 3 and 4 elaborate on Eichner's work on growth and money and yield insights into the theoretical disagreements among the Post-Keynesians themselves. Part 5 presents a number of examples of non-neo-classical model building. Part 6 opens with a critique of the "new economic history" that leads to other essays on thorny methodological issues confronting Post-Keynesians. Part 7 gives a European perspective on North American Post-Keynesian economics. The essays reveal the relationships between Eichner's work and Institutionalist and Marxian economics. At the same time, the book raises current theoretical conflicts among these groups as well as among Post-Keynesians themselves. This book compliments Alfred S.Eichner's "The Macrodynamics of Advanced Market Economies", also published in 1991, and is appropriate for scholars and upper-level undergraduates and graduate students.

The Rise and Fall of Corporate Social Responsibility

The Rise and Fall of Corporate Social Responsibility
Author: Douglas M. Eichar
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2017-05-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351615009

Corporate social responsibility was one of the most consequential business trends of the twentieth century. Having spent decades burnishing reputations as both great places to work and generous philanthropists, large corporations suddenly abandoned their commitment to their communities and employees during the 1980s and 1990s, indicated by declining job security, health insurance, and corporate giving. Douglas M. Eichar argues that for most of the twentieth century, the benevolence of large corporations functioned to stave off government regulations and unions, as corporations voluntarily adopted more progressive workplace practices or made philanthropic contributions. Eichar contends that as governmental and union threats to managerial prerogatives withered toward the century's end, so did corporate social responsibility. Today, with shareholder value as their beacon, large corporations have shred their social contract with their employees, decimated unions, avoided taxes, and engaged in all manner of risky practices and corrupt politics. This book is the first to cover the entire history of twentieth-century corporate social responsibility. It provides a valuable perspective from which to revisit the debate concerning the public purpose of large corporations. It also offers new ideas that may transform the public debate about regulating larger corporations.

Class, Politics and the Economy (Routledge Revivals)

Class, Politics and the Economy (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Stewart Clegg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2014-11-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134717032

This study, first published in 1986, provides a systematic account of the processes and structure of class formation in the major advanced capitalist societies. The focus is on the organizational mechanisms of class cohesion and division, theoretically deriving from a neo-Marxian perspective. Chapters consider the organization and structure of the ‘corporate ruling class’, the middle class and the working class, and are brought together in an overarching analysis of the organization of class in relation to the state and the economy. This title will be of particular interest to students researching the impact of recession on societal structure and the processes of political class struggle, as well as those with a more general interest in the socio-economic theories of Marx, Engels and Weber.

Corporate Power and Ownership in Contemporary Capitalism

Corporate Power and Ownership in Contemporary Capitalism
Author: Susanne Soederberg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2009-09-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135249431

This book examines neoliberal corporate power within the context of the American political economy and its relationship to emerging market economies in order to understand the global dimensions of the corporate-financial binary.

Blumberg on Corporate Groups

Blumberg on Corporate Groups
Author: Phillip I. Blumberg
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
Total Pages: 5804
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0735542066

This new five volume "Second Edition" of "Blumberg on

In Whose Interests

In Whose Interests
Author: M. Patricia Marchak
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2011
Genre: Corporations, Foreign
ISBN: 0773538674

A comprehensive entry into the literature of political economy.

Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism

Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism
Author: William K. Carroll
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0774844930

Challenging standard dependency theory, William Carroll argues from empirical evidence that Canada's financial-industrial elite have maintained and consolidated their competitive position at the centre of an inter-corporate network. Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism thus acknowledges the unusually high degree to which capital is concentrated in a relatively few giant corporations in Canada, but it denies that these commercial interests are subordinated to American corporate capital. To test the validity of this new perspective on the transformation of indigenous capitalists into a national bourgeoisie, Carroll traces the accumulation of capital in the largest Canadian corporations and the institutional relations that have existed among the same firms since World War II. Instead of selling out to foreign capital, Canadian firms have in fact become increasingly interlocked, and Canadian-controlled firms have been and continue to be the focus of both the industrial and financial sectors, with foreign-controlled companies occupying decidedly peripheral positions. From this interpretative position, Canada's development is seen as markedly similar to that of other advanced capitalist countries, culminating in consolidation of control under an elite accompanied both by penetration of foreign economies by domestic financial capitalists and a concomitant penetration of the domestic economy by foreign capital.