The nationalised industries' performance was unsatisfactory during the 1970s. However the same can be said of much of the private sector. Poor management and low productivity are by no means confined to public enterprise and financial assistance, which has had such an adverse effect on the...

This encyclopaedic work celebrates the scores of leading pioneers who created the modern economic field of industrial organization, at the heart of which lie competition and monopoly, the two great forces that drive modern markets. Their pioneering work has shaped the field’s growing research...

Baumol, Willig, and other advocates of "contestability" theory continue to urge the idea not only for its insights but also as a clear basis for many antitrust and regulatory decisions. Yet the limits of the theory remain. The three key assumptions are extremely strict, and two of them are in...

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