Antitrust and the formation of the postwar world

This text shows how, after World War II, the US sought to impose its antitrust policy on other nations, especially in Europe and Japan. The author Wyatt Wells chronicles how the attack on cartels and monopoly abroad affected everything from energy policy and trade negotiations ...

Media and sovereignty

the global information revolution and its challenge to State Power

Media have been central to government efforts to reinforce sovereignty and define national identity, but globalization is fundamentally altering media practices, institutions, and content. More than the activities of large conglomerates, globalization entails competition among states as well as private entities to dominate the world ...

Anuario de la competencia 2001

El Anuario de la Competencia 2001 forma parte de una colección iniciada en el año 1996, y que ya tuvo continuidad en los años 1997, 1998, 1999 y 2000. El Anuario de la Competencia cumple esencialmente dos objetivos, promover el debate y la reflexión sobre ...

Markets and moral regulation

Does European integration influence national cultures and social policies? Is Europe's fabled cultural diversity diminishing? In this 2001 book, Paulette Kurzer examines these important and topical questions by comparing the Irish abortion ban, Finnish and Swedish drinking restrictions, and Dutch drug decriminalization. Employing a ...

Introducción a la economía

Libro de prácticas. Microeconomía

Este Libro de Prácticas es el complemento natural del manual de Introducción a la Economía: Microeconomía de los mismos autores que coordinan este trabajo. Pero es también aplicable a cualquiera de los muchos manuales de introducción que se utilizan en el mercado. El libro pretende ...

Precios y oligopolio

ideas clásicas y herramientas modernas

El "problema del oligopolio", es decir, la cuestión de cómo se forman los precios en un mercado con pocos competidores, es uno de los problemas clásicos de la historia del pensamiento económico. En este libro el autor aplica un enfoque moderno, basado en teoría de ...

Problemas resueltos de microeconomia IV

Principles of Microeconomics

For the Third Edition, 2001 Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz joins forces with new coauthor Carl Walsh, who brings both macroeconomic expertise and teaching savvy to the project. Together, Stiglitz and Walsh thoroughly integrate contemporary economics into the traditional curriculum. Since the publication of Economics, Second ...

Microéconomie de l´incertain

Risques et décisions. Manuel et exercices corrigés.

Advanced microeconomic theory

This rigorous, up-to-date text on modern microeconomic theory presents all of the core mathematics, neoclassical theory, game theory, and information economics needed to access the modern professional literature. Complex theory is patiently and carefully developed, then clearly explained and illustrated because even well-prepared students benefit ...

R&D, education and productivity

a retrospective

Toward a comparative institutional analysis

Markets are one of the most salient institutions produced by humans, and economists have traditionally analyzed the workings of the market mechanism. Recently, however, economists and others have begun to appreciate the many institution-related events and phenomena that have a significant impact on economic performance ...

Competition in telecommunications

In Competition in Telecommunications, Jean-Jacques Laffont and Jean Tirole analyze regulatory reform and the emergence of competition in network industries using the state-of-the-art theoretical tools of industrial organization, political economy, and the economics of incentives. The book opens with background information for the reader who ...

Foundations of organizational strategy

In this volume, Michael Jensen and his collaborators present the foundations of an integrated theory of organizations. The theory assumes that organizations are equilibrium systems that, like markets, can be influenced, but cannot be told what to do; that human beings are rational and self-interested ...

Organización industrial para la estrategia empresarial

El estudio de la estrategia de las empresas ha ido evolucionando. La que alguna vez fuera una disciplina que carecía de bases analíticas sólidas y que sólo se fundaba en la indagación de la experiencia, en la intuición y en algunas generalizaciones obtenidas de análisis ...

Microeconomics of market failures

In this book Bernard Salanie studies situations where competitive markets fail to achieve a collective optimum and the interventions used to remedy these so-called market failures. He includes discussions of theories of collective decision making, as well as elementary models of public economics and industrial ...

El dominio de la información

una guía estratégica para la economía de la red

Los bienes de información, desde las películas y la música al software y a las cotizaciones de bolsa han sustituido los bienes industriales como motores claves de la economía mundial. Enfrentados a esta Economía Nueva muchos buscan instintivamente una Metodología Económica Nueva como guía de ...

Markt, Macht, Wettbewerb

meine Erfahrungen als Kommissar in Brüssel

Microeconomics

theory and applications

Microeconomic issues today

Alternative approaches