Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Videophiles and Betamania: Hacking the VCR -- 2 "Hollywood in a Box": Reconstructing Videotapes as Transparent Media -- 3 Retailers -- 4 Movie Culture in the Video Store and at Home -- 5 Retailers, Employees, and Consumers -- 6 Building...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Motive Powers and Mechanisms -- 2 Getting Traction, 1884 to 1888 -- 3 Assessing Richmond -- 4 Restless and Rising -- 5 Fighting for Control -- 6 Elusive Control -- 7 Mainline Electrification -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index.

Case studies that examine how firms coordinate economic activity in the face of asymmetric information—information not equally available to all parties—are the focus of this volume. In an ideal world, the market would be the optimal provider of coordination, but in the real world of...