Pioneers of Industrial Organization

Name: Pioneers of Industrial Organization
Author: Edited by Henry W. de Jong, William G. Shepherd

How the Economics of Competition and Monopoly Took Shape

9781843764342 Edward Elgar Publishing

Edited by Henry W. de Jong, Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and William G. Shepherd, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US

Publication Date: 2007 ISBN: 978 1 84376 434 2 Extent: 352 pp

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This encyclopaedic work celebrates the scores of leading pioneers who created the modern economic field of industrial organization, at the heart of which lie competition and monopoly, the two great forces that drive modern markets. Their pioneering work has shaped the field’s growing research as well as the past, present and future debates in Europe and America over several centuries. This landmark book includes authoritative entries on all the major figures in both Europe and North America.

Pioneers of Industrial Organization also reveals how public policies such as antitrust and regulation – and deregulation since the 1970s – can promote, or impede economic results and progress. Readers will find the intellectual pioneers, the theories and policies, and the debates, in all their variety herein. Some pioneers have been free-market advocates, others have been more protective of popular values, but all have strained to make the economic engine promote more wealth, progress and fairness. This book presents the people, ideas and debates with careful neutrality, and also with clear, concise writing.

For all those interested in modern economic progress and its problems, this book provides deep insight as well as great personal colour. It will be an essential source of reference for students, researchers and professors of economics, as well as those concerned with the historical foundations or the conceptual and thematic developments in industrial organization.

Critical Acclaim

‘This book is certainly an extremely useful working tool. . .’
– Manuela Mosca, History of Economic Ideas

‘. . . this collection should be viewed as a pioneering effort. . . this book would most likely serve as a useful quick reference source for students of industrial economics. It can also serve as a valuable point of departure for those who wish to study intellectual developments in a major field in more detail.’
– John Howard Brown, Journal of the History of Economic Thought

‘This work will be indispensable for anyone who undertakes serious scholarly research in industrial organization. With its knowledgeable authors and editors, this book offers us valuable materials, about the work of writers long forgotten and others inadequately recognized, that can contribute much to understanding in the field.’
– William J. Baumol, New York University and Princeton University, US

Contributors

Contributors: W.L. Baldwin, P. Bianchi, J.A. Brock, J.H. Brown, R.E. Caves, W.S. Comanor, J. De Bandt, H.W. de Jong, N.J. Foss, J.E. Kwoka, B. Marion, S. Martin, P. Møllgaard, W.F. Mueller, P. Oberender, S. Peltzman, F.M. Scherer, W.G. Shepherd, J.C. Spychalski, H.M. Trebing, M.A. Utton

Contents

Contents:

Introduction to the Pioneers and the Issues
William G. Shepherd and Henry W. de Jong

PART I: MARKET THEORY AND ITS PIONEERS IN EUROPE
1. Introduction to Market Theory and its European Pioneers
Henry W. de Jong

2. Market Theory in Europe
Henry W. de Jong

A. Adam Smith (1723–1790)
Henry W. de Jong

3. Economists from the German Language Area (Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries)
Henry W. de Jong

A. Heinrich von Stackelberg (1905–1946)
Peter Oberender and Thomas Rudolf

B. Ernst Heusz (1922–)
Peter Oberender and Thomas Rudolf

C. Erich Hoppmann (1923–)
Peter Oberender and Thomas Rudolf

D. Erhard Kantzenbach (1931–)
Peter Oberender and Thomas Rudolf

4. Market Theory in the Low Countries
Henry W. de Jong

A. Henk Wilm Lambers (1916–2004)
Henry W. de Jong

5. French Political Economy about Industrial Matters
Jacques De Bandt

A. Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832)
Jacques De Bandt

B. François Perroux (1903–1987)
Jacques De Bandt

6. Industrial Economics in Italy
Patrizio Bianchi

7. The Contributions of Three English Economists to the Development of Industrial Economics
Michael A. Utton

A. Alfred Marshall (1842–1924)
Henry W. de Jong

8. Industrial Economics in Scandanavia, 1880–1980
Nicolai J. Foss and Peter Møllgaard

PART II: PIONEERS OF THE FIELD IN THE USA AND CANADA
9. Introduction to the Pioneers in North America
William G. Shepherd

SECTION 1 INDIVIDUAL PIONEERS IN THE USA AND CANADA
10. To the 1930s
A. Charles Ellet Jr
F.M. Scherer

B. Henry Carter Adams
Harry M. Trebing

C. John Bates Clark
John Howard Brown

D. Jeremiah Whipple Jenks
John Howard Brown

E. John Maurice Clark
William L. Baldwin

F. George Ward Stocking
Willard F. Mueller

G. Martin G. Glaeser
Harry M. Trebing

11. The 1930s
A. Gardiner C. Means
John Howard Brown

B. Edward Hastings Chamberlin
William L. Baldwin

C. James C. Bonbright
Harry M. Trebing

D. Harold Hotelling
John Howard Brown

E. Edward S. Mason
William G. Shepherd

12. The 1940s and 1950s
A. Joseph A. Schumpeter
F.M. Scherer

B. Morris A. Adelman
William G. Shepherd

C. John Kenneth Galbraith
William G. Shepherd

D. Alfred E. Kahn
William G. Shepherd

E. Walter Adams
James A. Brock

F. Joe S. Bain
Richard E. Caves

G. Willard Fritz Mueller
Bruce Marion

H. Carl Kaysen
William G. Shepherd
I. Donald F. Turner
William G. Shepherd

J. George Joseph Stigler
Sam Peltzman

K. William Jack Baumol
Stephen Martin

L. John Robert Meyer
John C. Spychalski

13. The 1960s to the Mid-1980s
A. Richard E. Caves
William S. Comanor

B. Leland L. Johnson
William G. Shepherd

C. Leonard W. Weiss
F.M. Scherer

D. Jacob Schmookler
F.M. Scherer

E. Frederic M. Scherer
John E. Kwoka

F. William G. Shepherd
John Howard Brown

G. Harvey J. Leibenstein
W.G. Shepherd

H. William S. Comanor
William G. Shepherd

I. Oliver E. Williamson
William G. Shepherd

J. Harold Demsetz
William G. Shepherd

K. Paul W. MacAvoy
William G. Shepherd

L. Harry M. Trebing
William G. Shepherd

M. Dennis Cary Mueller
Stephen Martin

N. Roger G. Noll
William G. Shepherd

O. Sam Peltzman
William G. Shepherd

P. Richard Schmalensee
William G. Shepherd

Q. A. Michael Spence
F.M. Scherer

R. Robert D. Willig
William G. Shepherd

S. Joseph E. Stiglitz
F.M. Scherer

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