The Megacorp and Oligopoly

micro foundations of macro dynamics

This book provides both an explanation of the inflation which has bedeviled economic policy in the West since the end of World War II and a micro-economic theory to purge Keynesian models of the Walrasian strain derived from Marshall's Principles. By focusing on what ...

The economics of benchmarking

measuring performance for competitive advantage

"ten Raa" presents the techniques and theory of this popular business tool to explain how performance indices and rankings are developed and used to improve efficiency, productivity and profitability. The book presents a lucid exposition of a popular business tool. It is accessible to readers ...

Nuevas estrategias de gestión en la economía de innovación

En este libro se muestra la evolución histórica de la gestión de la innovación, sus fundamentos teóricos más relevantes, el impacto que ésta ha generado sobre el comercio internacional y en la definición de estrategias empresariales. Mientras que la ciencia se ha dado a la ...

Pricing in road transport

a multi-disciplinaru perspective

Transport pricing is high on the political agenda throughout the world, but as the authors illustrate, governments seeking to implement this often face challenging questions and significant barriers. The associated policy and research questions cannot always be addressed adequately from a mono-disciplinary perspective. This book ...

Ec competition Law

Written with competition law students in mind. Monti sets out economic concepts in a non-technical manner and explores the policy dimension of competition law by referring to key cases and contemporary policy initiatives.

Global price fixing

The book describes and analyzes the formation, operation, and impacts of modern global cartels. It provides a broad picture of the economics, competition law and history of international price fixing. A deeper understanding of the phenomenon is afforded by intensive case studies of collusion in ...

The Red Queen among organizations

how competitiveness evolves

There's a scene in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass" in which the Red Queen, having just led a chase with Alice in which neither seems to have moved from the spot where they began, explains to the perplexed girl: "It takes all ...

The digital economy

business organization, production processes and regional developments

Information technologies (IT) shape economic space, but we have no clear map of the cyber economy since the "digital revolution" began in the early 1970s. "The Digital Economy" offers an up-to-date, critical synthesis that links the various aspects of the digital or cyber economy from ...

Mergers and merger remedies in the EU

assessing the cosequences for competition

Headlines are made when the European Commission prohibits a merger, but this is actually very rare. Clearances subject to conditions (i.e. remedies) happen ten times as frequently, but have received far less attention in academic literature. This book provides an empirical assessment of the ...

Law and capitalism

what corporate crises reveal about legal systems and economic development around the world

Recent high-profile corporate scandals#such as those involving Enron in the United States, Yukos in Russia, and Livedoor in Japan#demonstrate challenges to legal regulation of business practices in capitalist economies. Setting forth a new analytic framework for understanding these problems, Law and Capitalism examines ...

Introducción al análisis económico

el caso colombiano

Este libro ofrece una síntesis de los obstáculos conceptuales y prácticos que debe superar el enfoque tradicional del análisis económico del derecho, que le permita contribuir al debate sobre las reformas legales y judiciales en América Latina. Con el objeto de abordar problemáticas complejas, como ...

Remontar las crisis

el desenvolvimiento de las organizaciones en su contexto

La palabra crisis en la Argentina y en el mundo de hoy, en especial en los comienzos de este nuevo milenio, se ha tornado de uso corriente. Se refiere a vivencias, experiencias y realidades dramáticamente cambiantes que han tenido que enfrentar en esta última década ...

Free trade reimagined

the world division of labor and the method of economics

El déficit exterior ¿es sostenible?

(Revista Economistas, Nº 114, año 2007)

Estudios de economía y empresa, Nº5, año 2007

Dirs. José Melchor Martín Bueno...[et.al]

The economics of gender

What role does gender play in relation to economic opportunities, activities, and rewards? The Economics of Gender, 3e offers a comprehensive, balanced, and up-to-date introduction to this important topic in labor economics. With a strong focus on US patterns, but utilizing an international comparative perspective ...

Principles of economic sociology

The last fifteen years have witnessed an explosion in the popularity, creativity, and productiveness of economic sociology, an approach that traces its roots back to Max Weber. This important new text offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of economic sociology. It also advances the field ...

Fundamentos de ingeniería económica

La 4ª edición contiene algunos cambios sustanciales con respecto a la edición anterior. El capítulo 2 "Conceptos básicos y equivalencia del valor del dinero a través del tiempo", fue reescrito totalmente para explicar los conceptos fundamentales de la materia de una forma novedosa, producto de ...

Economía en diez capítulos

"Economía". Todos usamos esta palabra a diario. Su origen es griego; literalmente, "administración del hogar". A veces nos quejamos de que "nuestra economía no es muy boyante", o al ver el telediario nos informan sobre la economía del país. Los médicos recomiendan que "economicemos esfuerzos ...

Basic economics

a common sense guide to the economy

This completely revised and updated third edition of Thomas Sowell's instrumental work includes a new chapter of government finance. "Basic Economics" is a citizen's guide to economics - for those who want to understand how the economy works, but have no interest in jargon ...