The A & P
M. A. Adelman

In this study of the A & P. the author inquires into cost and price policy in one of America's large corporations, and examines the fact-finding process in government regulation of an industry.

Hardcover
Adam's Fallacy
Duncan K. Foley
This book could be called "The Intelligent Person's Guide to Economics." The title expresses Duncan Foley's belief that economics at its most abstract and interesting level is a speculative philosophical discourse, not a deductive or inductive science. Adam's fallacy is the attempt to separate the economic sphere of life, in which the pursuit of self-interest is led by the invisible hand of the market to a socially beneficial outcome, from the rest of social life, in which the pursuit of self-interest is morally problematic and has to be weighed against other ends.
Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008
Advertising and Market Power
William S. Comanor
Thomas A. Wilson
Hardcover 1974
Air Transport and Its Regulators
Richard E. Caves
Hardcover 1962
American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century
Bruce L. Gardner
Looking at U.S. farming over the past century, Gardner searches out explanations for both the remarkable progress and the persistent social problems that have marked the history of American agriculture.
Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2006
American Railroads and the Transformation of the Ante-bellum Economy
Albert Fishlow
Hardcover 1965
The Art and Science of Negotiation
Howard Raiffa
Using a vast array of specific cases and clear, helpful diagrams, Raiffa not only elucidates the step-by-step processes of negotiation but also translates this deeper understanding into practical guidelines for negotiators and "intervenors."
Hardcover 1982 / Paperback 1985
Australian Industrial Relations Systems
Kenneth F. Walker
Hardcover 1970
The Bakumatsu Currency Crisis
Peter Frost
Paperback 1970
Beyond Machiavelli
Roger Fisher
Elizabeth Kopelman
Andrea Schneider
Hardcover
Beyond Nationalization
George B. Baldwin
This book is an interim report on how the human problems of the British coal industry are handled under nationalization—one of the classic experiments in governmental control of a great industry. The book makes clear why the future progress of the industry will depend on the solution of specific labor problems regardless of the system of ownership or which political party may control the government or the Coal Board.
Hardcover
Big Business and the State
Edited by Raymond Vernon
Hardcover 1974
Boundaries of the Universe
John S. Glasby
The age of merely looking at the heavens, of mapping and cataloguing the positions of the stars down to fainter and fainter limits, is past. But the realm of the partially understood and the totally unknown is still as great as ever, and it is with this vast no-man's-land of astronomy that this book is concerned. With this book as a guide, the reader cannot fail to experience some of the tremendous fascination of present-day astronomy and its innumerable unsolved problems.
Hardcover 1971
The Brazilian Capital Goods Industry, 1929-1964
Nathaniel H. Leff
Hardcover 1968
British Monetary Policy and the Balance of Payments, 1951-1957
Peter B. Kenen
Hardcover 1960
Business and Public Policy
Edited by John T. Dunlop
Hardcover 1980
The Butcher Workmen
David Brody

The advance of trade unionism in the first part of the 20th century to a dominant place in the American economy brought with it a major change in the life of the nation. This phenomenal growth has not hitherto been adequately studied. This is the first book to deal with the actual process of unionization. Mr. Brody presents here a detailed study of one industry—meat packing and retailing—with implications that apply to unionization in general.

Hardcover 1964
The CIO Challenge to the AFL
Walter Galenson
Hardcover
Carroll Wright and Labor Reform
James Leiby
Contemporaries of Carroll D. Wright (1840-1909) lived through the transformation of American society by the industrial revolution. For the most part they thought the transformation represented growth and progress, but many also found occasion for doubt and fear in its consequences. Their anxieties collected around the notions of a "labor problem" and "labor reform." Whether from hope or fear, people felt a need for statistical information. On this popular demand Wright built his career as statistical expert and renowned master of "labor statistics." His investigations during thirty-two years of government service (1873-1905) gave form to contemporary ideas and set precedents for modern procedures, as in his seminal studies of wages, prices, and strikes.
Hardcover 1960
Chains of Opportunity
Harrison C. White
Hardcover 1970
The Charles Ilfeld Company
William J. Parish
Hardcover 1961
Collected Papers
Lloyd A. Metzler
Hardcover 1973
Competition in the Midwestern Coal Industry
Reed Moyer
Hardcover 1964
Competitive Advantage on the Shop Floor
William Lazonick
Hardcover
Computers, Inc
Marie Anchordoguy

This account of efforts to build a domestic Japanese computer industry is enlivened with quotations from industrial leaders commenting on the stages through which Japan has emerged as a world-class competitor.

Hardcover 1989
Copyhold, Equity, and the Common Law
Charles Montgomery Gray

This book has a threefold purpose: to date and explain the beginning of legal protection of copyholders in courts of law and equity; to reconstruct and explain the first stage in the creation of a body of law relating to copyholds; and to provide a case study in sixteenth-century jurisprudence of a sort that may tend to illuminate larger questions about the judicial process in that period.

Hardcover 1963
The Corporate Economy
Robin Marris
Adrian Wood
Hardcover 1971
Creating Modern Capitalism
Thomas K. McCraw, Editor
What explains the national economic success of the United States, Britain, Germany, and Japan? What can be learned from the performances of leading business firms? How important were specific innovations by individual entrepreneurs? What is the true nature of capitalist development? Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Thomas McCraw and his coauthors present penetrating answers to these questions in Creating Modern Capitalism, the first book to explain for a broad audience the interconnections among technological innovation, management science, the power of entrepreneurship, and national economic growth.
Paperback 1998 / Hardcover 1999
The Depletion Myth
Sherry H. Olson
Hardcover 1971
Economic Redevelopment in Bituminous Coal
C. L. Christenson
Hardcover 1962
The Economics of Competition in the Transportation Industries
John R. Meyer
Merton J. Peck
John Stenason
Charles Zwick
Hardcover 1959
The Economics of Multi-Plant Operation
Frederic M. Scherer
Alan Beckenstein
Erich Kaufer
Dennis R. Murphy
Francine Bougeon-Massen
Hardcover 1975
Economics of Worldwide Stagflation
Michael Bruno
Jeffrey Sachs
Hardcover 1985
Electric Power in Brazil
Judith Tendler
Hardcover 1968
The Emergence of Multinational Enterprise
Mira Wilkins
Hardcover 1970
Employers Large and Small
Charles Brown
Jay Hamilton
James Medoff
Hardcover 1990
Executive
Harry Levinson
Hardcover 1981 / Paperback
Executive Defense
Michael Useem
Hardcover
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
Albert O. Hirschman
An innovator in contemporary thought on economic and political development looks here at decline rather than growth. Albert 0. Hirschman makes a basic distinction between alternative ways of reacting to deterioration in business firms and, in general, to dissatisfaction with organizations: one-exit-is for the member to quit the organization or for the customer to switch to the competing product, and the other-voice-is for members or customers to agitate and exert influence for change "from within."
Paperback 1970
Fairness versus Welfare
Louis Kaplow
Steven Shavell
By what criteria should public policy be evaluated? Fairness and justice? Or the welfare of individuals? Debate over this fundamental question has spanned the ages. Fairness versus Welfare poses a bold challenge to contemporary moral philosophy by showing that most moral principles conflict more sharply with welfare than is generally recognized. Fairness versus Welfare has profound implications for the theory and practice of policy analysis and has already generated considerable debate in academia.
Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2006
Family Firm to Modern Multinational
Charles W. Cheape
Hardcover 1985
Farm Policies and Politics in the Truman Years
Allen J. Matusow
Hardcover 1967
The Federal Railway Land Subsidy Policy of Canada
James B. Hedges
Hardcover 1934
Florentine Public Finances in the Early Renaissance, 1400-1433
Anthony Molho
Hardcover 1971
Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law
Steven Shavell
In this book Steven Shavell provides an in-depth analysis and synthesis of the economic approach to the building blocks of our legal system, namely, property law, tort law, contract law, and criminal law. He also examines the litigation process as well as welfare economics and morality. Aimed at a broad audience, this book requires neither a legal background nor technical economics or mathematics to understand it. Because of its breadth, analytical clarity, and general accessibility, it is likely to serve as a definitive work in the economic analysis of law.
Hardcover 2004
Free Trade between the United States and Canada
Ronald J. Wonnacott
Paul Wonnacott
Hardcover 1967
The French Labor Movement
Val R. Lorwin
Hardcover 1954
From Sand to Circuits
Edited by John J. Simon, Jr
Hardcover 1987
The Functions of the Executive
Chester I. Barnard
Introduction by Kenneth Richmond Andrews
Most of Barnard's career was spent in executive practice. A Mount Hermon and Harvard education, cut off short of the bachelor's degree, was followed by nearly forty years in the American Telephone & Telegraph Company. His career began in the Statistical Department, took him to technical expertness in the economics of rates and administrative experience in the management of commercial operations, and culminated in the presidency of the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company. He was not directly involved in the Western Electric experiments conducted chiefly at the Hawthorne plant in Cicero, but his association with Elton Mayo and the latter's colleagues at the Harvard Business School had an important bearing on his most original ideas.
Paperback 1971
High-Level Manpower in Economical Development
Richard D. Robinson
Hardcover 1967
Hiring of Dock Workers and Employment Practices in the Ports of New York, Liverpool, London, Rotterdam, and Marseilles
Vernon H. Jensen
Hardcover 1964
The History of Foreign Investment in the United States to 1914
Mira Wilkins
Hardcover 1989
Income, Saving, and the Theory of Consumer Behavior
James S. Duesenberry
Hardcover 1949
International High Technology Competition
F. Scherer
Hardcover
Interregional Competition in Agriculture
Ronald L. Mighell
John D. Black
Hardcover 1951
Investment Banking in America
Vincent Carosso
Hardcover 1970
Investment and Production
Vernon L. Smith
Hardcover 1961
Italian Public Enterprise
M. V. Posner
S. J. Woolf
Hardcover 1967
Kikkoman
W. Mark Fruin
Hardcover 1983
Labor Politics American Style
Philip Taft
Hardcover 1968
Labor in Finland
Carl Erik Knoellinger
Hardcover 1960
Labor in the South
F. Ray Marshall
Hardcover 1967
The Land Question and the Irish Economy
Barbara Lewis Solow
Hardcover 1971
Leadership Without Easy Answers
Ronald Heifetz
Drawing on a dozen years of research among managers, officers, and politicians in the public realm and the private sector, among the nonprofits, and in teaching, Heifetz presents clear, concrete prescriptions for anyone who needs to take the lead in almost any situation, under almost any organizational conditions, no matter who is in charge, His strategy applies not only to people at the top but also to those who must lead without authority--activists as well as presidents, managers as well as workers on the front line.
Hardcover 1998
The Machinists
Mark Perlman
Hardcover 1961
Making Markets
Mitchel Abolafia
Making Markets, an ethnography of Wall Street culture, offers a comprehensive picture of how the market and its denizens work. Markets appear here as socially constructed institutions in which the behavior of traders is suspended in a web of customs, norms, and structures of control.
Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 2001
Man-in-Organization
F. J. Roethlisberger
Hardcover 1968
Management and Morale
F. J. Roethlisberger
Hardcover 1941
Managerial Hierarchies
Edited by Alfred D. Chandler
Edited by Herman Daems
Hardcover 1980 / Paperback
Market Control and Planning in Communist China
Dwight H. Perkins
Hardcover 1966
Market Signaling
A. Michael Spence
Hardcover 1974
Market Structure and Behavior
Martin Shubik
Hardcover 1980
The Maturing of Multinational Enterprise
Mira Wilkins
Hardcover 1974
Methods of Crop Forecasting
Fred H. Sanderson
Hardcover 1954
Mobilizing Invisible Assets
Hiroyuki Itami
Thomas Roehl
Paperback 1991
Models for Managing Regional Water Quality
Robert Dorfman
Henry D. Jacoby
Harold A. Thomas
Hardcover 1973
Money and Monetary Policy in China, 1845-1895
Frank H. H. King
Hardcover 1965
Money, Trade, and Economic Growth
Harry G. Johnson
Paperback 1962 / Hardcover 1962
The New Competition
Michael Best
Paperback / Hardcover
New England Textiles in the Nineteenth Century
Paul F. McGouldrick
Hardcover 1968
The New York Money Market and the Finance of Trade, 1900-1913
C. A. E. Goodhart
Hardcover 1969
One Hundred Thousand Tractors
Robert F. Miller
Hardcover 1970
Organization and Environment
Paul R. Lawrence
Jay W. Lorsch
Hardcover 1967
Pay without Performance
Lucian Bebchuk
Jesse Fried
As this book clearly demonstrates, structural flaws in corporate governance have produced widespread distortions in executive pay. Pay without Performance presents a disconcerting portrait of managers' influence over their own pay--and of a governance system that must fundamentally change if firms are to be managed in the interest of shareholders.
Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006
The Politics of Railroad Coordination, 1933-1936
Earl Latham
Hardcover 1959
Program Budgeting
Edited by David Novick
Hardcover 1967
Promotion and Control of Industry in Postwar France
John Sheahan
Hardcover 1963
Revolution at the Checkout Counter
Stephen A. Brown
Hardcover 1997
The Rise of the National Trade Union
Lloyd Ulman
Hardcover 1955
The Rise of the United Association
Martin Segal
Hardcover 1969
Science Policy and Business
Edited by David W. Ewing
Hardcover 1973
Secrecy and the Arms Race
Martin C. McGuire
Hardcover 1965
Shareholder Access to the Corporate Ballot
Edited by Lucian Bebchuk
In this book, leading scholars and practitioners debate whether shareholders should have access to the corporate ballot, as well as the broader corporate governance that firms and shareholders face. The participants include prominent academics, public officials, and practitioners in law and business, and they offer a wide range of perspectives and views. The arguments that they use and develop are ones that will continue to play a critical role in the ongoing debate about how publicly traded companies should be run.
Hardcover 2005
Some Problems in Market Distribution
Arch W. Shaw
Hardcover 1915
The Steel Industry Wage Structure
Jack Stieber
Hardcover 1959
The Steel Industry of India
William A. Johnson
Hardcover 1966
Storm over the Multinationals
Raymond Vernon
Hardcover 1977
The Story of the Savannah
David Kuechle
Hardcover 1971
Structural Holes
Ronald Burt
Ronald Burt describes the social structural theory of competition that has developed through the last two decades. The contrast between perfect competition and monopoly is replaced with a network model of competition. The basic element in this account is the structural hole: a gap between two individuals with complementary resources or information.
Paperback 1995 / Hardcover
Studies in Development Planning
Edited by Hollis B. Chenery
Samuel Bowles, With
Walter P. Falcon, With
Carl Gotsch, With
David Kendrick, With
Arthur MacEwan, With
Christopher Sims, With
Thomas Weisskopf, With
Hardcover 1971
Switching Channels
Richard E. Caves
Media critics invariably disparage the quality of programming produced by the U.S. television industry. But why the industry produces what it does is a question largely unasked. It is this question, at the crux of American popular culture, that Switching Channels explores.
Hardcover 2005
The Taxation of Capital Income
Alan J. Auberbach

This important contribution to tax analysis presents seven related theoretical essays that examine the effects of capital income taxation on the behavior of firms. It is divided into three sections, focusing on optimal tax design, firm financial policy, and inflation. Taken together, the essays demonstrate the powerful role taxes play in shaping the behavior of American corporations, and also provide insights into the difficult task of tax reform.

Hardcover
Technological Change and Management
Edited by David W. Ewing
Hardcover 1970
Telecommunication Policy for the Information Age
Gerald W. Brock
Gerald Brock develops a new theory of decentralized public decisionmaking and uses it to clarify the dramatic changes that have transformed the telecommunication industry from a heavily regulated monopoly to a set of market-oriented firms.
Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 1998
Theory of Markets
Tun Thin
Hardcover 1960
The Theory of Trade and Protection
William Penfield Travis
Hardcover 1964
Trade Union Officers
H. A. Clegg
A. J. Killick
Rex Adams

The problems of trade union officers have attracted considerable attention in recent years. It is often suggested that changes in our educational system have cut off the supply of able candidates for full–time posts, whilst attractive offers from nationalized and private industries have drained away existing talent. Trade Union officers are said to be badly paid and over–worked. Meanwhile much of the power of the unions is alleged to have passed to the shop stewards, about whose duties and characteristics relatively little is known.

This study is based upon an investigation into the records of eighteen major unions, upon local surveys, and upon the answers to questionnaires distributed nationally.

Hardcover 1961
The Transformation of Corporate Control
Neil Fligstein
Hardcover 1990 / Paperback
The Tyranny of the Market
Joel Waldfogel
Economists have long counseled reliance on markets rather than on government to decide a wide range of questions, in part because allocation through voting can give rise to a "tyranny of the majority." Markets, by contrast, are believed to make products available to suit any individual, regardless of what others want. But the argument is not generally correct. In markets, you can't always get what you want. This book explores why this is so and its consequences for consumers with atypical preferences.
Hardcover 2007
The United Brotherhood of Carpenters
Walter Galenson
Hardcover 1983
United States v. United Shoe Machinery Corporation
Carl Kaysen
Hardcover 1956
Vertical Integration and Joint Ventures in the Aluminum Industry
John A. Stuckey
Hardcover 1983
Voluntary Associations
Constance Smith
Anne Freedman
Paperback 1972
Wages and Economic Control in Norway, 1945-1957
Mark W. Leiserson
Hardcover 1959
Water-Resource Development
Otto Eckstein
Hardcover 1958
Western Enterprise in Late Ch'ing China
Edward Le Fevour
Hardcover 1968