ABSTRACT

This updated and expanded 1985 edition of the classic 1974 work covers deindustrialisation, industrial and competition policy, the public enterprise sector, regional and urban policy, and privatisation, as well as focussing on the firm and the industrial sector in all its facets. It remains the key work on industrial economics.

chapter 1|26 pages

Scope and Method of Industrial Economics

chapter 2|44 pages

Industrial and Market Structure

chapter 3|63 pages

The Firm

chapter 4|49 pages

Corporate Growth

chapter 5|53 pages

Diversification, Merger and Innovation

chapter 6|34 pages

Pricing and Advertising

chapter 7|31 pages

The Investment Decision

chapter 8|30 pages

Performance Measurement

chapter 9|67 pages

State Intervention in the Private Sector

chapter 12|24 pages

Government Policy since 1979