The Bigness Complex

Author : Walter Adams,James W. Brock
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804767347

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The Bigness Complex by Walter Adams,James W. Brock Pdf

The Bigness Complex confronts head-on the myth that organizational giantism leads to economic efficiency and well-being in the modern age. On the contrary, it demonstrates how bigness undermines our economic productivity and progress, endangers our democratic freedoms, and exacerbates our economic problems and challenges. This new edition has a thoroughly updated variety of issues, examples, and new developments, including government bailouts of the airline industry; regulation of biotechnology; the fiasco of recent electricity deregulation; and mergers and consolidations in oil, radio, and grocery retailing. The analysis is framed in the timeless context of American distrust of concentrations of power. The authors show how both the left and the right fail to address the central problem of power in formulating their diagnoses and recommendations. The book concludes with an alternative public philosophy as a viable guidepost for public policy toward business in a free-enterprise democracy.

Author : Walter Adams,James W. Brock
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Big business
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040496932

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The Bigness Complex by Walter Adams,James W. Brock Pdf

Author : George Sternlieb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351483315

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The Economy as a System of Power by George Sternlieb Pdf

The articles in this volume address the fact and use of economic power in the American economy. The institutional economists' perspective exhibited here reflects a century-long focus on and concern with economic power begun by Thorstein Veblen. This volume presents a new generation of institutionalist scholars who add to that tradition a fresh and penetrating analysis of contemporary power centers and assessments of their use of power.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Economic and Commercial Law
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Bankruptcy
ISBN : PSU:000017877671

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Leveraged Buyouts and Bankruptcy by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Economic and Commercial Law Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Antitrust law
ISBN : UOM:39015014635893

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Competitiveness and Antitrust by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1478 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Judges
ISBN : HARVARD:32044057638140

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Nomination of Robert H. Bork to be Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1346 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Judges
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029340440

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Nomination of Robert H. Bork to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : James W. Brock,Kenneth G. Elzinga
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315488110

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Antitrust, the Market and the State by James W. Brock,Kenneth G. Elzinga Pdf

Using the metaphor of the socially constructed organization of space, this text takes a broad view of the evolution of urban America, from its historical roots to the present. It examines how policies respond to and affect the organization of space, and it looks to the future of American cities.

Author : Jack Trout
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470475546

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In Search of the Obvious by Jack Trout Pdf

This is the first book that states the obvious: Marketing is a mess. Marketing guru Jack Trout intends to make a lot of people, who made the mess, very uncomfortable: Advertisers are criticized as people who look for the creative and edgy, not the obvious. They will not be happy. Marketing people are criticized for getting hopelessly entangled in corporate egos and complicated projects. They will not be happy. Research people are criticized for generating more confusion than clarity. They will not be happy. Some big companies are criticized for their ill-fated marketing programs or lack of proper strategy. They will not be happy. Wall Street is criticized for putting too much emphasis on growth that is unnecessary and can be destructive to a brand. They will just ignore this criticism and continue trying to make as much money as they can. But this is a book not written to make people happy but to explain to marketers what their real problem is. Only then will they begin to look for the obvious solutions that will separate their products from their competitors -- in a way that is equally obvious to customers. All this comes with no jargon, no numbers, no complexity, and a great deal of common sense.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Antitrust law
ISBN : PSU:000014988158

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Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Procedure Amendments Act by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law Pdf

Author : Robert E. Babe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401122047

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Information and Communication in Economics by Robert E. Babe Pdf

Although there is a burgeoning interest among economists in `information economics', much of the literature adopts a reductionist conceptualization of information, defining it exclusively as reduction in uncertainty, exploring the implications of imperfect information on markets. This neoclassical treatment obscures major interrelations between economic and communicatory processes. Drawing on a range of distinguished scholarship from both the economic and communication studies disciplines, Information and Communication in Economics explores the implications for economic analysis and our understanding of economic processes of employing a more complete conceptualization of information: information as locus of power; information as evolutionary agent; and media systems as devices for control.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Competition
ISBN : UCR:31210014707531

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Oversight Hearing on Mergers and Acquisitions by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization Pdf

Author : Marc R. Tool
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781315493046

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Evolutionary Economics: v. 2 by Marc R. Tool Pdf

This is part of a two-volume work intended to map the theoretical heartland of the institutionalist perspective on political economy. Volume II considers basic economic processes, institutions for stabilizing and planning economic activities, the role of power and accountability, and emerging global interdependence. Marc R. Tool is the editor of "Journal of Economic Issues".

Author : Robert D. Atkinson,Michael Lind
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262537100

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Big Is Beautiful by Robert D. Atkinson,Michael Lind Pdf

Why small business is not the basis of American prosperity, not the foundation of American democracy, and not the champion of job creation. In this provocative book, Robert Atkinson and Michael Lind argue that small business is not, as is widely claimed, the basis of American prosperity. Small business is not responsible for most of the country's job creation and innovation. American democracy does not depend on the existence of brave bands of self-employed citizens. Small businesses are not systematically discriminated against by government policy makers. Rather, Atkinson and Lind argue, small businesses are not the font of jobs, because most small businesses fail. The only kind of small firm that contributes to technological innovation is the technological start-up, and its success depends on scaling up. The idea that self-employed citizens are the foundation of democracy is a relic of Jeffersonian dreams of an agrarian society. And governments, motivated by a confused mix of populist and free market ideology, in fact go out of their way to promote small business. Every modern president has sung the praises of small business, and every modern president, according to Atkinson and Lind, has been wrong. Pointing to the advantages of scale for job creation, productivity, innovation, and virtually all other economic benefits, Atkinson and Lind argue for a “size neutral” policy approach both in the United States and around the world that would encourage growth rather than enshrine an anachronism. If we overthrow the “small is beautiful” ideology, we will be able to recognize large firms as the engines of progress and prosperity that they are.

Author : J. Shaanan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230102231

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Economic Freedom and the American Dream by J. Shaanan Pdf

Shaanan challenges the conventional view that unrestricted economic freedom enhances our economic and political well being. He demonstrates that unrestricted economic freedom provides benefits but also inflicts a heavy toll on democracy, free markets and, paradoxically, economic freedom itself.