Democratizing the corporation

the bicameral firm and beyond

Although contemporary Western societies refer to themselves as "democratic," the bulk of the population spend much of their lives in workplaces that have more in common with tyranny. Gigantic corporations such as Amazon, Meta, Exxon, and Walmart are among the richest and most powerful institutions ...

Tratado de gestión socioeconómica

En esta obra han intervenido 193 autores, procedentes de 16 países y de cuatro continentes, todos ellos expertos en ciencias de gestión, bien por su práctica profesional o bien por su experiencia académica. Es el testimonio de la diversidad de contextos nacionales y sectoriales en ...

Economic analysis of property rights

The standard neoclassical model of economics is incapable of explaining why one form of organization arises over another. It is a model where transaction costs are implicitly assumed to not exist; however, transaction costs are here defined as the costs of strengthening a given distribution ...

The Big Con

how the consulting industry weakens our businesses, infantilizes our governments and warps our economies

There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change. Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies' reliance on companies such as McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and ...

Tiempos de fútbol en Europa

análisis histórico y económico de la industria del fútbol

Un libro de Carolina Coronas Oro Tiempos de fútbol en Europa: Análisis histórico y económico de la industria del fútbol es un libro dirigido a los aficionados y profesionales que desean profundizar en la evolución histórica y en el impacto socioeconómico del fútbol profesional. El ...

How antitrust failed workers

A trenchant account of an unacknowledged driver of inequality and wage stagnation in America: the abandonment of antitrust law, which has allowed corporations to combine into a smaller number of massive conglomerates whose market dominance robs workers of their bargaining power. The consequences of the ...

Market investigations

a new competition tool for Europe?

In many economic sectors - the digital industries being first and foremost - the market power of dominant firms has been steadily increasing and is rarely challenged by competitors. Existing competition laws and regulations have been unable to make markets more contestable. The book argues that a ...

Introducción a la organización industrial

El estudio de la organización industrial, es decir, el análisis de cómo las empresas compiten entre sí, se ha convertido en un elemento clave de la economía, así como de otras disciplinas relacionadas con ella, como las finanzas, la estrategia o el marketing. Este libro ...

La concurrence

Cet ouvrage propose une synthèse de l'état des connaissances académiques et des débats sur la concurrence, dans une perspective à la fois micro (effets sur le marché) et macroéconomique (effets sur l'emploi, la croissance, l'innovation, etc.).Emmanuel Combe étudie des questions nouvelles ...

El mito del capitalismo

los monopolios y la muerte de la competencia

La historia de cómo Norteamérica ha pasado de ser un mercado abierto y competitivo a ser una economía en la que unas cuantas empresas dominan industrias clave que afectan a nuestra vida cotidiana. Los monopolios digitales como Google o Facebook actúan como guardianes del mundo ...

Reconciling eficiency and equity

a global challenge for competition policy

Description Contents Resources Courses About the Authors Due to the growing influence of economics and economists in competition law and policy discourse and the internationalization of antitrust, the equity versus efficiency trade-off debate has played a defining role in the transformation of the dominant paradigm ...

The government-industrial complex

the true size of the federal government, 1984-2018

In his 1961 Farewell Address, President Eisenhower famously referred to the emergence of a "military-industrial complex" so powerful that it threatened to warp America's political institutions and economy. However, the military was not the only part of government that was growing by leaps and ...

Industrial relations and financial globalization

analysis of national experiences in Europe, America and Asia

Capitalism in its modern form has become universal and has a presence in practically every country in the world, including those which once called themselves Communist. This book studies its effects on different labor markets, from those linked to highly tertiary economies (EU-27, USA and ...

Economics of regulation and antitrust

A thoroughly revised and updated edition of the leading textbook on government and business policy, presenting the key principles underlying sound regulatory and antitrust policy. Regulation and antitrust are key elements of government policy. This new edition of the leading textbook on government and business ...

Transformando las economías

haciendo que la política industrial funcione para el crecimiento, el empleo y el desarrollo

Con base en la revisión de las distintas tradiciones económicas (la economía neoclásica, el estructuralismo, la economía y la tradición evolutivas), este libro argumenta que la política industrial incluye el apoyo al desarrollo de actividades, sectores y tecnologías prioritarias y de futuro para la economía ...

Industrial organization

competition, strategy and policy

Industrial Organisation: Competition, Strategy, Policy provides a thorough treatment of the core concepts and theories underlying the economics of industrial organization. In this new fifth edition, the authors use an array of empirical examples and case studies to analyse the structure, behaviour and performance of ...

Public-private partnership projects in infrastructure

an essential guide for policy makers

Infrastructural investment is critical to economic growth, quality of life, poverty reduction, access to education, health care, and the achievement of many of the goals of a robust economy. But infrastructure is difficult for the public sector to get right. Public-private partnerships (PPPs) can help ...

Introduction to industrial organization

The study of industrial organization (IO) -- the analysis of the way firms compete with one another -- has become a key component of economics and of such related disciplines as finance, strategy, and marketing. This book provides an issue-driven introduction to industrial organization. Although formal in ...

Economics for competition lawyers

Competition law is rooted in economic theory, and economics provides many of the standard tools often applied in competition investigations. As a result, a strong foundation in economics is an invaluable asset for practitioners in this area of law. This is the new edition of ...

Industrial organization

markets and strategies

Thoroughly revised according to classroom feedback, Industrial Organization: Markets and Strategies offers an up-to-date and rigorous presentation of modern industrial organization that blends theory with real-world applications and derives implications for firm strategy and competition policy. This comprehensive textbook acquaints readers with the most important ...