The papers in this volume represent some of the leading work on intellectual property. They address the question of how to create incentives to develop new technologies and how to protect those technologies once developed from theft. They also ask when valuable property might be developed even...

Dieses Buch möchte die Entwicklung einer voll entfalteten Weltökonomie und die damit einhergehende neue Rolle von Unternehmen in der Gesellschaft analysieren und untersuchen. Dies soll unter dem Gesichtspunkt geschehen, ob und mit welchen Konsequenzen sich darin eine veränderte Beziehung von...

We discuss the literatures on behavioral economics, bounded rationality and experimental economics as they apply to firm behaviour in markets. Topics discussed include the impact of imitative and satisficing behavior by firms, outcomes when managers care about their position relative to peers,...