What sets the firm apart from other producers is the commercial nature of its operations. The firm produces for the market and only for the market. It produces goods and buys them not in order to consume them but in order to sell them or their products. While economic agents other than the firm...

Italian Abstract: Questo documento discute la vita e il lavoro di Josef Steindl.Esamina lo sviluppo del suo pensiero dai suoi primi scritti su dimensioni solide e concentrazione industriale ai suoi ultimi lavori sui problemi postbellici delle economie capitaliste.Particolare attenzione viene...

This paper shifts the focus of discussion on the 2008 financial crisis from the problems of the financial sector to its effects on the real economy. We step back from the immediate facts of the crisis to consider the reason for finance and its importance in firm innovation, both theoretically...

This paper discusses the life and work of Josef Steindl. It examines the development of his thought from his early writings on firm size and industrial concentration to his late work on the post-war problems of capitalist economies. Special attention is given to his seminal work on the Great...