IEBM Handbook of Economics offers a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the major economic issues of our day. It provides an important reference work and learning tool for students of business and management, economists among them. Comprehensive and global in scope and content, this handbook has been written with explicit recognition of the centrality of business activity and its management to the operation and performance of a modern economy.
The entries included in the IEBM Handbook of Economics reflect the progress that has been made among economists, many of them working in business schools, in bridging this gap.
With contributions from leading international academics, this handbook covers systems of economic organization, systems of economic thought, business enterprise, industrial organization, economic institutions, and notable economists.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction
Part 1. Labour, Technological Change, and Income Distribution
Employment Relations
Labour Markets
Industrial and Labour Relations
Skill Formation Systems
Workfare
Gender and Ethnic Divisions in the US Labour Force
Intellectual Property Rights
Cleaner Production
Development and Diffusion of Technology
Innovation
Pension Systems
Comparative Income and Wealth Distribution
Part 2. Business and Industrial Organization
Corporate Control
Dynamic Capabilities
Transfer Pricing
Industrial Dynamics
Cooperation and Competition
Privatization and Regulation
Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
Built Environment
Industrial Agglomeration
Securities and Exchange Regulation
Part 3. Industrial Sectors
Aerospace Industry
Chemical Industry
Global Machine Tool Industry
Telecommunications Industry
Steel Industry
Electronics Industry
Automobile Industry
Service Economy
Part 4. National Economies and the International Systems
East Asian Economies
Economies of Central and Eastern Europe
Banking Systems
Economic Growth and Convergence
Multinational Corporations
International Financial Stability
Economic Integration, International
World Trade Organization WTO
Part 5. Theories and Tools
Evolutionary Theories of the Firm
Institutional Economics
Neoclassical Economics
Managerial Theories of the Firm
Enterprise Ownership
Rationality in Economics
Trust
Monetarism
Growth Theory
Modelling and Forecasting
Transaction Cost Economics
Innovative Enterprise
Biographies