Download or read book Concentration in Modern Industry written by Leslie Hannah and published by Springer. This book was released on 1977-06-17 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Concentration and Power in the Food System written by Philip H. Howard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly every day brings news of another merger or acquisition involving the companies that control our food supply. Just how concentrated has this system become? At almost every key stage of the food system, four firms alone control 40% or more of the market, a level above which these companies have the power to drive up prices for consumers and reduce their rate of innovation. Researchers have identified additional problems resulting from these trends, including negative impacts on the environment, human health, and communities. This book reveals the dominant corporations, from the supermarket to the seed industry, and the extent of their control over markets. It also analyzes the strategies these firms are using to reshape society in order to further increase their power, particularly in terms of their bearing upon the more vulnerable sections of society, such as recent immigrants, ethnic minorities and those of lower socioeconomic status. Yet this study also shows that these trends are not inevitable. Opposed by numerous efforts, from microbreweries to seed saving networks, it explores how such opposition has encouraged the most powerful firms to make small but positive changes.
Download or read book The Rise of the Corporate Economy written by Leslie Hannah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1976, this much acclaimed book looks at the story of how today's large corporations have superseded the small competing firms of the nineteenth century. The long-run analysis confirms that the crucial periods in the formulation of the modern corporate system were the 1920's and 1960's. The merger wave of these decades was associated with a desire to improve the efficiency of Britain’s industrial organization, and the author shows that it was in a large measure responsible for the trend improvement (by historical if not international standards) in Britain's growth performance. Students of business, economic history and industrial economics will all welcome the return to print of a notable contribution to the continuing debate on the evolution and control of the corporate manufacturing sector.
Download or read book The Great Reversal written by Thomas Philippon and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Financial Times Book of the Year A ProMarket Book of the Year “Superbly argued and important...Donald Trump is in so many ways a product of the defective capitalism described in The Great Reversal. What the U.S. needs, instead, is another Teddy Roosevelt and his energetic trust-busting. Is that still imaginable? All believers in the virtues of competitive capitalism must hope so.” —Martin Wolf, Financial Times “In one industry after another...a few companies have grown so large that they have the power to keep prices high and wages low. It’s great for those corporations—and bad for almost everyone else.” —David Leonhardt, New York Times “Argues that the United States has much to gain by reforming how domestic markets work but also much to regain—a vitality that has been lost since the Reagan years...His analysis points to one way of making America great again: restoring our free-market competitiveness.” —Arthur Herman, Wall Street Journal Why are cell-phone plans so much more expensive in the United States than in Europe? It seems a simple question, but the search for an answer took one of the world’s leading economists on an unexpected journey through some of the most hotly debated issues in his field. He reached a surprising conclusion: American markets, once a model for the world, are giving up on healthy competition. In the age of Silicon Valley start-ups and millennial millionaires, he hardly expected this. But the data from his cutting-edge research proved undeniable. In this compelling tale of economic detective work, we follow Thomas Philippon as he works out the facts and consequences of industry concentration, shows how lobbying and campaign contributions have defanged antitrust regulators, and considers what all this means. Philippon argues that many key problems of the American economy are due not to the flaws of capitalism or globalization but to the concentration of corporate power. By lobbying against competition, the biggest firms drive profits higher while depressing wages and limiting opportunities for investment, innovation, and growth. For the sake of ordinary Americans, he concludes, government needs to get back to what it once did best: keeping the playing field level for competition. It’s time to make American markets great—and free—again.
Download or read book Industrial Concentration written by Donald J. Dewey and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Economics of Industries and Firms written by Malcolm Sawyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1985-09-19 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1985, "The Economics of Industries and Firms" is a vaulable contribution to Economics.
Download or read book Modern Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology written by Nduka Okafor and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of industrial microbiology involves a thorough knowledge of the microbial physiology behind the processes in the large-scale, profit-oriented production of microbe-related goods which are the subject of the field. In recent times a paradigm shift has occurred, and a molecular understanding of the various processes by which plants, animals and microorganisms are manipulated is now central to industrial microbiology. Thus the various applications of industrial microbiology are covered broadly, with emphasis on the physiological and genomic principles behind these applications. Relevance of the new elements such as bioinformatics, genomics, proteomics, site-directed mutation and metabolic engineering, which have necessitated the paradigm shift in industrial microbiology are discussed.
Download or read book The Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advertising and Small Business Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Activities of Regulatory Agencies Relating to Small Business of 92 1 Pursuant to H Res 5 and 19 June 7 25 1971 written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committe on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the House Select Committee on Small Business written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advertising and Small Business written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Activities of Regulatory Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Small Business and the Quality of American Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Distinctive Industrialization written by J. K. J. Thomson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-13 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1992, is a study of the development of Barcelona's cotton industry, bridging the 'pre-industrial' and early 'industrial' periods.
Download or read book Econophysics Economics of Games Social Choices and Quantitative Techniques written by Banasri Basu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The combined efforts of the Physicists and the Economists in recent years in analyzing and modelling various dynamic phenomena in monetary and social systems have led to encouraging developments, generally classified under the title of Econophysics. These developments share a common ambition with the already established field of Quantitative Economics. This volume intends to offer the reader a glimpse of these two parallel initiatives by collecting review papers written by well-known experts in the respective research frontiers in one cover. This massive book presents a unique combination of research papers contributed almost equally by Physicists and Economists. Additional contributions from Computer Scientists and Mathematicians are also included in this volume. The book consists of two parts: the first part concentrates on Econophysics problems and the second part stresses on various quantitative issues in Economics. Both parts specialize on frontier problems in Games and Social Choices.
Download or read book Planning Regulation and Competition Automobile Industry 1968 Hearings Before Subcommittees 90 2 on the Question are Planning and Regulation Replacing Competition in the American Economy the Automobile Industry as a Case Study July 10 23 1968 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Planning Regulation and Competition Automobile Industry 1968 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Retailing, Distribution, and Marketing Practices and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers the effects of the automobile industry's planning and regulating activities on competition. Includes "Automobile Industry: A Case Study of Competition" by General Motors Corp. (p. 617-728).
