1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456901103321

Titolo

Marshall, Marshallians and industrial economics / / edited by Tiziano Raffaelli, Tamotsu Nishizawa and Simon Cook

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

0-415-74693-0

1-283-10482-2

9786613104823

0-203-83323-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in history of economics  Marshall, Marshallians, and industrial economics

Altri autori (Persone)

CookSimon J

NishizawaTamotsu <1950->

RaffaelliTiziano <1950->

Disciplina

330.15/5

Soggetti

Industrial organization (Economic theory)

Industries

Economics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Marshall, Marshallians and Industrial Economics; Copyright Page; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction: from the Wanderjahre to the revival of Marshall's industrial economics: Giacomo Becattini; Section 1: Marshall's industrial economics; 1. Marshall's evolutionary model and its bearing on business organization and size: Tiziano Raffaelli; 2. Marshall on Britain's industrial leadership and business organization: Industry and Trade revisited: Tamotsu Nishizawa; 3. Fair wage in Marshall: capability development in organization: Kenji Fujii

Section 2: Wider perspectives4. The history of nations: Simon Cook; 5. Analysing what cannot be modelled: a defence of Marshallian equilibrium analysis: Roger E. Backhouse; 6. Ideal social orders: Marco Dardi; Section 3: The Marshallian school; 7. The Lancashire industrial district: its rise, prosperity and decline in the analysis of British



economists: Fiorenza Belussi and Katia Caldari; 8. Two Marshallians: Layton and the early MacGregor: Carlo Cristiano; 9. Layton on industrial and applied economics: Masashi Kondo; 10. Philip Sargant Florence: an economic sociologist: Leonard Minkes

11. Dennis Robertson's The Control of Industry: Hiroyuki ShimodairaSection 4: The revival; 12. David H. MacGregor and industrial economics at Oxford, 1920-45: Frederic S. Lee; 13. The Marshallian tradition of industrial economics in Oxford (1947-79): from Andrews' contribution to the emergence of industrial organization and business studies: Lise Arena; 14. Marshall and Richardson on markets: Richard Arena; 15. Some remarks on the interlinked territorial scales of Marshallian external economies: Marco Bellandi

16. Marshall's (real) influence on present-day industrial economics: Richard N. LangloisIndex

Sommario/riassunto

The four sections of the book deal in succession with Marshall's key ideas on the subject, the wider context of his thought in which they are to be read, their later development by some of his pupils, and their revival in contemporary economics. The first and last sections work together to illustrate the evolutionary focus of Marshall's research program and to identify its affinity with modern industrial economics; the second explicates the social assumptions within which the Marshallian paradigm was embedded, in particular those relating to the various relationships that exist between indi



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910974496003321

Autore

Wu Guang

Titolo

China : has the last opportunity passed by?! / / Guang Wu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hauppauge, N.Y., : Nova Science Publishers, 2009

ISBN

1-61728-185-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (104 p.)

Collana

China in the 21st century series

Disciplina

951.06

Soggetti

China Politics and government 2002-

China Economic conditions 2000-

China Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Contents -- Preface -- Historically Unique Opportunity -- What Makes a Country Great -- 2.1 Threshold -- 2.2 Life in Great Country and Small Kingdom -- 2.3 What Makes a Country Great -- 2.3.1 Application of a Great Systematical Thought -- 2.3.2 Regional and World Entitlement -- 2.3.3 Opportunity -- Chinese Way of Thinking -- 3.1 Chinese People -- 3.2 Thinking Pattern of Chinese -- 3.3 What Chinese Think -- 3.4 What is Chinese Spirit -- What Chinese Lack -- 4.1 Systematical Theory -- 4.1.1 Religion -- 4.1.2 Three Systematical Theories -- 4.1.3 Other Theories -- 4.2 Scientific Observation -- 4.3 Logic -- Chinese War -- 5.1 Religious War -- 5.2 Colonization, Resource and Market War -- 5.3 Characteristics of Chinese War -- Last Approach -- 6.1 Stable and Unstable -- 6.2 Lag Time and Validation -- 6.3 Generation Dynamics and Kinetics -- Possible Reasons -- 7.1 Long-Term Peace -- 7.2 Rich Imagination -- 7.3 Recycling -- The Future -- 8.1 Systematical Theory for Mankind -- 8.2 Entitlement -- 8.3 Opportunity -- 8.4 Final Remark -- Appendix -- References -- Index -- Blank Page.

Sommario/riassunto

The first couple of years at the beginning of 21st century were a historically unique opportunity for the Chinese. In this book the author explores what makes a country great, why the Chinese might have lost this opportunity, what the Chinese lack, what the Chinese thinking



pattern is, and much more.