This encyclopaedic work celebrates the scores of leading pioneers who created the modern economic field of industrial organization, at the heart of which lie competition and monopoly, the two great forces that drive modern markets. Their pioneering work has shaped the field's growing research as...

Portfolio Selection und Analgeentscheidungen in Finanzmärkten -- Treffen Investoren mit konstanter relativer Risikoaversion auch im Buy-and-Hold-Kontext myopische Portfolioentscheidungen? -- Faktorstruktur und Marktmodelle -- Effiziente Portefeuillestrukturen: von Harry Markowitz zur...

Erudite, accessible and lucidly written, this book provides a stimulating introduction to the careers and main published works of the Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics. It will prove to be an invaluable reference book on key figures in economics and their path-breaking insights. The...

This volume is an account of the economic drivers and outcomes of the Cold War, told through the stories of seven international economists, who were all closely involved in theory and policy in the period 1945-73. For them, the Cold War was a battle of economic ideas, a fight between central...

WISO ist das Hochschulangebot von GBI-Genios mit einem breiten Spektrum wissenschaftlicher und studienrelevanter Inhalte. Dazu gehören hochkarätige Referenzdatenbanken sowie die Volltexte ausgewählter Fachzeitschriften und eBooks. Das Gesamtangebot von wiso setzt sich aus einer Reihe von...

This remarkable book outlines the historical framework and the main concepts of the literature on industrial districts. It illustrates a new approach to the study of industrial development, based on well-known industrial districts analysis. Giacomo Becattini has written an authoritative volume...