This volume examines the controversy surrounding the use of competition law to combat excessive pricing. While high or monopolistic pricing is not regarded as an antitrust violation in the US, employing abuse of dominance provisions in competition laws to fight excessive pricing has gained...

Der Wettbewerb zwischen Unternehmen verlagert sich hin zum Wettbewerb zwischen ganzen Wertschöpfungsketten. Hierdurch gewinnt neben der effizienten Zusammenarbeit der am Leistungsprozess beteiligten Unternehmen die Interaktion mit dem jeweils angrenzenden Wettbewerbsumfeld (Beschaffungsmärkte,...

This fifth volume in the International Papers in Political Economy (IPPE) series focuses on the theme of path dependency and macroeconomics in terms of both theory and applications. The volume examines how path dependency is linked with notions of fundamental uncertainty, non-ergodicity and...

Der Faktormarkt für Arbeit lässt sich aufgrund fortschreitender Spezialisierungsanforderungen, räumlicher Friktionen und sozialer Interdependenzen durch perfekt kompetitive Strukturen nur unzureichend beschreiben. In Analogie zu industrieökonomischen Ansätzen sowie in Abgrenzung zu...

This book offers a novel perspective that allows to incorporate changing consumption and production structure into models of economic growth. Starting from the empirical observation that income and consumption structure are closely related, it develops a tractable theoretical framework which...

Chapter 1: Introduction: Luigi L. Pasinetti—A Leading Scholar of the Second Generation of the Cambridge School of Keynesian Economics -- Part I: Life and Research Activity of Luigi L. Pasinetti -- Chapter 2: Youth at Zanica, Bergamo, and Academic Studies at the Catholic University of Milan,...

This book examines the relationships among leadership, the quality of the management process and business results. Drawing from the pioneering contributions of Chester I. Barnard, this book defines the role and characteristics of an effective and efficient manager in the new knowledge economy....

This book argues that Lionel Robbins’s construction of the economics field’s organizing cornerstone, scarcity-and all that has been derived from it from economists in Robbins’s time to today-no longer can generate general consent among economists. Since Robbins’ Essay, economists have...

This latest volume in the Collaborative Biography of Hayek examines the interconnectedness between Hayek’s (1944) The Road to Serfdom and George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949); his relationship with Karl Popper and Karl Polanyi; and the work of Wilhelm von...

This book is a major contribution to the study of political economy. With chapters ranging from the origins of political economy to its most exciting research fields, this handbook provides a reassessment of political economy as it stands today, whilst boldly gesturing to where it might head in...