Theories of Industrial Organization
Written by Professor Gavin Reid, of the Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews
‘This book
represents a considerable academic achievement. It is likely to be used in a wide
variety of courses in industrial and business economics, and should remain an
important work of reference for a long time’
Michael Utton,
Professor of Economics, University of Reading
‘Gavin
Reid has combined his talents as an industrial economist and a historian of
economic thought to write a guide to the range of approaches to industrial
economics. The analysis is rigorous
and the book will provide a useful source for students to gain an appreciation
of the field’
Michael Waterson, The Economic Journal
‘A
useful introduction to the literature which will be particularly useful for
graduates wishing to broaden their knowledge of the industrial organization
literature’
Roger Clarke, The Manchester School
‘Although
the book covers approaches to industrial organization with a long pedigree, it
does nevertheless reflect the recent mathematization
of industrial economics…This book represent an interesting and
dispassionate overview of the present state of industrial economics, and as
such will be useful for those, especially graduate students, wishing to find
the range of ideas current in industrial economics’
Malcolm Sawyer, Economica
‘What
the author is attempting to do is to establish a conceptual framework within
which the empirical analysis of industrial organization at the “real world”,
often normative, level can take place, but with a clearer understanding of
which competing theoretical approach is being drawn upon…The book is well
written and stimulating…As an overview and comparison of many theories
and approaches to the organization of industries, and a basis for stimulating
practitioners of industrial organizational analysis to examine more seriously
some of the alternative approaches to their field of endeavour, the book serves
its purpose.’
Dudley W Blair, Southern Economic Journal
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