Download or read book The Growth of Firms written by Alex Coad and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research into firm growth has been accumulating at a terrific pace, and Alex Coad s survey of this multifaceted field provides a detailed, comprehensive overview of the latest developments. Much progress has been made in empirical research into firm growth in recent decades due to factors such as the availability of detailed longitudinal datasets, more powerful computers and new econometric techniques. This book provides an up-to-date catalogue of empirical work, as well as a coherent theoretical structure within which these new results can be interpreted and understood. It brings together a large body of recent research on firm growth from a multidisciplinary perspective, providing an up-to-date synthesis of stylized facts and empirical regularities. Numerous empirical findings and theories of firm growth are also surveyed and compared in order to evaluate their validity. Drawing on a vast and diverse body of research, this book will prove invaluable to students, academics, policy makers and practitioners with a need to keep abreast of studies in industrial organization, firm growth and management.

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Download or read book On Skidelsky s Keynes and Other Essays written by G. Harcourt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-05-28 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Skidelsky's Keynes and Other Essays is a collection of essays, biographies, review articles and tributes, focusing on the lives and times of the Cambridge School of Economists, and the immense contribution that these thinkers, including the author, made to the discipline.

Download or read book Economic Theory in Retrospect written by Mark Blaug and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-03-27 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1997, is a history of economic thought from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes.

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Download or read book Essays in Honor of Kenneth J Arrow Volume 3 Uncertainty Information and Communication written by Walter P. Heller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-09-26 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third in a series of volumes published in honour of Professor Kenneth J. Arrow, each covering a different area of economic theory.

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