Industry, Space and Competition rediscovers the contributions of the past on industrial organization and spatial economics and analyses these within the context of current movements towards globalization, regionalization and localization.

Herbert A. Simon has been a leading contributor to cognitive psychology, computer science, public administration, philosophy and statistics, and is the winner of the 1978 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. As this authoritative collection demonstrates, his impact on economics has been felt in...

Nancy and Richard Ruggles’s seminal work on prices has a contemporary relevance for modern-day theorists and practitioners. These carefully selected essays provide a core analysis of pricing systems and the behavior and measurement of prices.

This timely volume offers a comprehensive assessment of the dynamics of firms’ behaviour and organization, providing an essential outline of the ways in which our understanding of firms and markets is evolving.

Incentive theory is the most important development in economics in the last forty years. The principal-agent model is the core of this theory. This authoritative collection brings together the essential literature concerning the principal-agent model when no restrictions on the design of the...

General Equilibrium Theory has been one of the major intellectual developments in economics during the past half-century. The theory of general equilibrium is centred on an inquiry about human societies which has several of the characteristics of a fundamental scientific question. In an economy,...

Robert Atkinson examines this process of change over the past 150 years and explores the responses of people and institutions. The book then analyzes today’s New Economy, including the new information technology system, and effects on markets, organizations, workers, and governance. Taking...

Neo-classical microeconomics has dominated economics as a school of thought since the end of the nineteenth century. Seen as the ‘orthodox’ school, it has been challenged by many of the newer schools that have been developed since, but none has succeeded in supplanting neo-classical...

Drawing from letters written over more than 50 years (1942–1994), this book offers a look at the thoughts and correspondence of Herbert A. Simon, one of the giants of twentieth century social science. The selections are letters from Simon’s personal correspondence, including letters to Oskar...

The multidisciplinary, quantitative approach adopted by the author, enables her to ‘de-structure’ the ‘canonical’ idea of the ID and evaluate the normative value. Supported by multivariate and econometric analyses, she identifies four general types of ID each with different development...