1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910964144403321

Autore

Sawyer Malcolm C

Titolo

The economics of industries and firms : theories, evidence, and policy / / Malcolm C. Sawyer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 1991

ISBN

1-134-96295-9

1-134-96296-7

1-280-11166-6

9786610111664

0-203-98006-9

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 p.)

Disciplina

338.5/024/658

Soggetti

Industrial organization (Economic theory)

Business enterprises

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; 1 AN INTRODUCTION; 2 STRUCTURE, CONDUCT AND PERFORMANCE: AN OVERVIEW; 3 INDUSTRIAL CONCENTRATION; 4 COST CONDITIONS AND ECONOMIES OF SCALE; 5 CONDUCT AND BEHAVIOUR; 6 INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE AND PROFITABILITY; 7 ADVERTISING; 8 INNOVATION, INVENTION AND INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE; 9 PRICES, PRICE CHANGE AND OLIGOPOLY; 10 THE STRUCTURE-CONDUCT-PERFORMANCE APPROACH: A CRITIQUE; 11 MANAGERIAL THEORIES OF THE FIRM; 12 THE GROWTH OF FIRMS: SPEED AND SCOPE; 13 ACQUISITIONS AND MERGERS

14 THE WELFARE LOSS OF MONOPOLY15 COMPETITION AND INTERVENTION; 16 ASPECTS OF RECENT INDUSTRIAL POLICY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SUBJECT INDEX; AUTHOR INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Published in 1985, ""The Economics of Industries and Firms"" is a vaulable contribution to Economics.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910954940803321

Autore

Winegarten Renee

Titolo

Germaine de Stael & Benjamin Constant : a dual biography / / Renee Winegarten

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2008

ISBN

0-300-17624-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Disciplina

944.04092

Soggetti

Authors, French - 19th century

Intellectuals - France

Novelists, Swiss - 19th century

Women authors, French - 19th century

Women intellectuals - France

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (319-326) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. A Chance Encounter -- 2. Prodigies -- 3. A Bold Throw -- 4. Enter the Hero -- 5. A New Order -- 6. Journey into the Unknown -- 7. Corinne and Adolphe -- 8. The Flight to Freedom -- 9. Reunion in Paris-and After -- 10. The Death of Corinne -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

When they first met in 1794, shortly after the Reign of Terror, Germaine de Staël and Benjamin Constant were both in their twenties, both married, and both outsiders. She was already celebrated and a published writer, whereas he, though ambitious, was unknown. This compelling dual biography tells the extraordinary story of their union and disunion, set against a European background of momentous events and dramatic social and cultural change. Renee Winegarten offers new perspectives on each of the protagonists, revealing their rare qualities and their all-too-human failings as well as the complex nature of their debt to one another. Their passionate and productive relationship endured on and off for seventeen years. Winegarten traces their story largely through their own words-letters and autobiographical writings-and illuminates the deep intellectual and visceral bond they shared despite disparate personalities and gifts. Exploring their relationships



with Napoleon and the Bourbons, their different responses to the momentous upheavals of postrevolutionary France, their support of individual liberty with order, and more, the book concludes with an appreciation of de Staël's and Constant's singular contributions to a new literature and to the history of liberty.