Download or read book Problems of Coordination in Economic Activity written by James W. Friedman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coordination is extremely important in economic, political, and social life. The concept of economic equilibrium is based on the coordination of producers and consumers in buying and selling. This book reviews the topic of coordination from an economic, theoretical standpoint. The aim of this volume is twofold: first, the book contributes to the ongoing research on the economics of coordination; and second, it disseminates results and encourages interest in the topic. The volume contains original research on coordination including general game-theoretic questions, particular coordination issues within specific fields of economics (i.e. industrial organization, international trade, and macroeconomics), and experimental research.
Download or read book Problems of Coordination in Economic Activity written by James W Friedman and published by . This book was released on 1993-12-31 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coordination and Information written by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case studies that examine how firms coordinate economic activity in the face of asymmetric information—information not equally available to all parties—are the focus of this volume. In an ideal world, the market would be the optimal provider of coordination, but in the real world of incomplete information, some activities are better coordinated in other ways. Divided into three parts, this book addresses coordination within firms, at the borders of firms, and outside firms, providing a picture of the overall incidence and logic of economic coordination. The case studies—drawn from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, when the modern business enterprise was evolving, address such issues as the relationship between coordination mechanisms and production techniques, the logic of coordination in industrial districts, and the consequences of regulation for coordination. Continuing the work on information and organization presented in the influential Inside the Business Enterprise, this book provides material for business historians and economists who want to study the development of the dissemination of information and the coordination of economic activity within and between firms.
Download or read book The Financial System and the Coordination of Economic Activity written by Robert E. Krainer and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1985 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economics as a Coordination Problem written by Gerald P. O'Driscoll and published by Kansas City, Kan. : Sheed Andrews and McMeel. This book was released on 1977 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revision of the author's thesis, University of California at Los Angeles. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 158-167.
Download or read book The Economics of Organization and Coordination written by Peter-J. Jost and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive economic approach for the analysis of organizational structure. It considers the parallels of coordination within firms, coordination between firms and market coordination and offers an economic analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of various instruments of coordination. Looking at examples in the practical world, it provides individual concepts and insights on an economic approach to organization. The book first presents an overall framework of economic organization and its architecture. It then analyzes non-hierarchical coordination mechanisms, and the structure of hierarchical coordination before addressing the choice of a suitable organizational structure. The book will be useful for students of economic and social sciences, with an emphasis on organization and personnel, as well as practitioners in organization and management. Contents: Preface Part I: Organizations and the Role of Coordination 1. Economic Organizations and their Architecture 2. The Analysis of the Coordination Problem Part II: Coordinating Economic Activities: From Markets to Hierarchies 3. The Efficiency of Markets 4. The Analysis of Transactions Part III: Hierarchies as a Coordination Mechanism 5. Basic Forms of Hierarchical Coordination 6. Organizational Structures Bibliography Index
Download or read book Macroeconomic Instability and Coordination written by Axel Leijonhufvud and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Axel Leijonhufvud has made a unique contribution to the development of macroeconomic theory. This volume draws together his insightful essays dealing with the extremes of economic instability: great depressions, high inflation and the transition from socialism to a market economy. In several of the papers, Leijonhufvud brings a neo-institutionalist perspective to the problems of coordination in economic systems. The papers within Macroeconomic Instability and Coordination some of them already considered classics, deal with the questions that dominated Leijonhufvud's interest throughout his career as an economist: what are the limits to an economy's capacity to coordinate the activities of its members? How does the behavior of the system change under extreme conditions? In what ways does its performance depend upon the institutions that govern the market process?
Download or read book Problems of the Planned Economy written by John Eatwell and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-07-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an excerpt from the 4-volume dictionary of economics, a reference book which aims to define the subject of economics today. 1300 subject entries in the complete work cover the broad themes of economic theory. This extract concentrates on problems encountered in a planned economy.
Download or read book The Economy As An Evolving Complex System II written by W. Brian Arthur and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new view of the economy as an evolving, complex system has been pioneered at the Santa Fe Institute over the last ten years, This volume is a collection of articles that shape and define this view?a view of the economy as emerging from the interactions of individual agents whose behavior constantly evolves, whose strategies and actions are always adapting.The traditional framework in economics portrays activity within an equilibrium steady state. The interacting agents in the economy are typically homogenous, solve well-defined problems using perfect rationality, and act within given legal and social structures. The complexity approach, by contrast, sees economic activity as continually changing?continually in process. The interacting agents are typically heterogeneous, they must cognitively interpret the problems they face, and together they create the structures?markets, legal and social institutions, price patters, expectations?to which they individually react. Such structures may never settle down. Agents may forever adapt and explore and evolve their behaviors within structures that continually emerge and change and disappear?structures these behaviors co-create. This complexity approach does not replace the equilibrium one?it complements it.The papers here collected originated at a recent conference at the Santa Fe Institute, which was called to follow up the well-known 1987 SFI conference organized by Philip Anderson, Kenneth Arrow, and David Pines. They survey the new study of complexity and the economy. They apply this approach to real economic problems and they show the extent to which the initial vision of the 1987 conference has come to fruition.
Download or read book Problems of the Planned Economy written by John Eatwell and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1990 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in the New Palgrave: a dictionary of economics ... in four volumes, 1987"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references. Perestroika / A. Aganbegyan -- Socialist planning / Michael Ellman -- China's economic reforms / Peter Nolan -- Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin / Donald J. Harris -- Central planning / Tadeusz Kowalik --Colbertism / D.C. Coleman -- Collective agriculture / Peter Nolan --Command economy / Gregory Grossman -- Control and coordination of economic activity / Béla Martos -- Convergence hypothesis / P.J.D. Wiles --Corporatism / Joseph Halevi -- Cycles in socialist economies / D.M. Nuti -- East-West economic relations / Marie Lavigne -- Economic calculation in socialist economies / Michael Ellman -- Fascism / Wolfgang-Dieter Classen -- Grigorii Alexandrovic Fel'dman / Michael Ellman -- Investment planning / Joseph Halevi -- Leonid Vitalievich Kantorovich / V. Makarov --Labour-managed economies / B. Horvat -- Oskar Lange / Tadeusz Kowalik. Lange-Lerner mechanism / Tadeusz Kowalik -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin / Meghnad Desai -- Abba Ptachya Lerner / Tibor Scitovsky -- Mao Zedong / Peter Nolan -- Market socialism / W. Brus -- Material balances / Gregory Grossman -- Vasily Sergeevich Nemchinov / M.C. Kaser -- Viktor Valentinovich Novozhilov / Holland Hunter and Robert W. Campbell --Planned economy / Alec Nove -- Planning / Rajiv Vohra -- Evgenii Alexeyevich Preobrazhensky / Michael Ellman -- Prices and quantities / A. Brody -- Socialism / Alec Nove -- Josif Vissarionovich Stalin / Michael Ellman -- Stanislav Gustavovich Strumilin / M.C. Kaser -- Lev Davidovich Trotsky / Richard B. Day -- Nikolai Alekseevich Voznesensky / M.C. Kaser.
Download or read book The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great deal of economics is about law - the functioning of markets, property rights and their enforcement, financial obligations, and so forth - yet these legal aspects are almost never addressed in the academic study of economics. Conversely, the study and practice of law entails a significant understanding of economics, yet the drafting and administration of laws often ignore economic principle. The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law is uniquely placed by the quality, breadth and depth of its coverage to address this need for building bridges. Drawn from the ranks of academics, professional lawyers, and economists in eight countries, the 340 contributors include world experts in their fields. Among them are Nobel laureates in economics and eminent legal scholars. First published in 1998 and now available in paperback for the first time, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law has established itself as a classic reference work in this important field.
Download or read book Coordination and Growth written by Gerard H. Kuper and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coordination and Growth: Essays in Honour of Simon K. Kuipers, addresses a rich variety of coordination issues in macroeconomics. It contains detailed studies in economic policy, monetary economics, and growth theory and uses various methodologies to address the coordination issue: from a pure theoretical to an empirical econometric approach. It is stressed that modern macroeconomics should focus on coordination issues. Imperfections of various kinds are likely to lead to coordination failures, which can lead to large welfare losses. Macroeconomists should address the causes and implications of imperfections and failures. In this book attempts are made to increase our knowledge in this field. The book is a tribute to one of the leading Dutch macroeconomists, Simon K. Kuipers. Simon Kuipers shows a major interest in the theory of capital (following e.g. Harrod), growth theory (following Solow), monetary theory (following Tobin), and disequilibrium theory (following Malinvaud and Benassy). The lines of thought have in common that they use frictions to explain the functioning of a market economy. The nature of the frictions varies from pure quantity rationing, like in the Malinvaud analysis, to imperfect substitution of various capital goods (like in the vintage models or assets (in the general monetary equilibrium models proposed by Tobin). Kuipers is not only interested in pure theoretical contributions, he also stimulates econometric work in line with the Dutch tradition initiated by Tinbergen. His applied work relates to policy analysis and policy prescriptions in many fields, ranging from monetary economics to distortions in the labour market. Kuipers can be classified as a true Keynesian, although he admires neoclassical theory for its rigour and compactness. Better still, he is an eclectic economist with an open eye for the different schools of thought in macroeconomics.
Download or read book Institutional Economics in France and Germany written by Agnes Labrousse and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German Ordoliberalism and French Regulation theory, two institutionalist theories born in different national contexts, show striking convergences and complementarities. Based on an original comparison, Institutional Economics in France and Germany analyses the basic concepts, the development and the present relevance of both schools, the way they deal with the crucial methodological issue of complexity and with transformation in post-socialist Europe. It underlines the specificity and fruitfulness of these European approaches to institutional economics, often unfortunately ignored in the English-language literature. Written by leading scholars, this book is a clear presentation of both theories, with numerous illustrations and in-depth analysis of recent research developments. This theoretical, methodological and thematic comparison raises central issues in the growing field of socioeconomic and institutionalist theory.
Download or read book Time Consumption and the Coordination of Everyday Life written by Dale Southerton and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time pressure, speed and the desire for instant consumption pervade accounts of contemporary lives. Why is it that people feel pressed for time, in what ways have societies changed to create this condition, and with what implications? This book examines critical contentions in the field of time and society, ranging from the emergence and dominance of ‘clock time’ and time discipline, the time pressures associated with consumer culture, through to technological innovation and the acceleration of everyday lives. Through extensive analysis of empirical studies of the changing ways in which people organise and experience home, work, leisure, consumption and personal relationships, time pressure is shown to be a problem of the coordination and synchronization of activities. Appreciation of temporal rhythms – formed and reproduced through the organisation and performance of social practices – is necessary to tackle the challenges of coordination, and offers new avenues for analysing social issues such as sustainable consumption, health and well-being. This book is essential reading for all of those interested in social change, consumption and time, including researchers and students from across the social sciences.
Download or read book The New Palgrave written by John Eatwell and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1990 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in the New Palgrave: a dictionary of economics ... in four volumes, 1987"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references. Perestroika / A. Aganbegyan -- Socialist planning / Michael Ellman -- China's economic reforms / Peter Nolan -- Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin / Donald J. Harris -- Central planning / Tadeusz Kowalik --Colbertism / D.C. Coleman -- Collective agriculture / Peter Nolan --Command economy / Gregory Grossman -- Control and coordination of economic activity / Bela Martos -- Convergence hypothesis / P.J.D. Wiles --Corporatism / Joseph Halevi -- Cycles in socialist economies / D.M. Nuti -- East-West economic relations / Marie Lavigne -- Economic calculation in socialist economies / Michael Ellman -- Fascism / Wolfgang-Dieter Classen -- Grigorii Alexandrovic Fel'dman / Michael Ellman -- Investment planning / Joseph Halevi -- Leonid Vitalievich Kantorovich / V. Makarov --Labour-managed economies / B. Horvat -- Oskar Lange / Tadeusz Kowalik. Lange-Lerner mechanism / Tadeusz Kowalik -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin / Meghnad Desai -- Abba Ptachya Lerner / Tibor Scitovsky -- Mao Zedong / Peter Nolan -- Market socialism / W. Brus -- Material balances / Gregory Grossman -- Vasily Sergeevich Nemchinov / M.C. Kaser -- Viktor Valentinovich Novozhilov / Holland Hunter and Robert W. Campbell --Planned economy / Alec Nove -- Planning / Rajiv Vohra -- Evgenii Alexeyevich Preobrazhensky / Michael Ellman -- Prices and quantities / A. Brody -- Socialism / Alec Nove -- Josif Vissarionovich Stalin / Michael Ellman -- Stanislav Gustavovich Strumilin / M.C. Kaser -- Lev Davidovich Trotsky / Richard B. Day -- Nikolai Alekseevich Voznesensky / M.C. Kaser.
Download or read book Varieties of Capitalism written by Peter A. Hall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying the new economics of organisation and relational theories of the firm to the problem of understanding cross-national variation in the political economy, this volume elaborates a new understanding of the institutional differences that characterise the 'varieties of capitalism' worldwide.
Download or read book The Economics and Implications of Data written by Mr.Yan Carriere-Swallow and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This SPR Departmental Paper will provide policymakers with a framework for studying changes to national data policy frameworks.
