Contents
- Home Page
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The business environment in the first quarter of the 21st century
- Chapter 2: The firm as a decision-maker
- Chapter 3: The neoclassical theory of the firm
- Chapter 4: The strategic firm
- Chapter 5: The price-discriminating firm and the regulated firm
- Chapter 6: The money-managing firm
- Chapter 7: The transaction cost theory of the firm
- Chapter 8: The principal-agent theory of the firm
- Chapter 9: The evolutionary theory of the firm
- Appendix I: The evolution of industrial concentration due to luck: an extension
- Appendix II: Buyer concentration and countervailing power
- Appendix III: Buyers, sellers, and price cost margins in manufacturing industries
- Appendix IV: Live and let live type behaviour in a multi-market setting with demand fluctuations
- Appendix V: Stochastic duopoly and learning to cooperate
- Appendix VI: Captive and common markets without price discrimination
- Appendix VII: Pairing industries and firms for optimum portfolio performance
- Appendix VIII: Occupational stress: some microeconomic issues
- Appendix IX: Stock acquisition mortgage loans
- Appendix X: Screening stocks based on the rational approach to decision-making
- Epilogue: Epilogue
- Bibliography: Bibliography