This book agrees with the assertion that neo-classical economics offers vital descriptive and explanatory insights. However, the properties of the theory are quite unrealistic. As in chemistry, physics, and other disciplines, scientific advances require willingness to challenge old theories, and to discard them when they fail to resolve selected problems. The basic purpose of "A Theory of the Firm in Economic Space" is to move towards a new microecocomics, one which adds distance to time in its framework. The result is a focus on oligopoly markets and a more realistic system of thought than that embodied in neo-classical microeconomics.
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Höhe: 147 mm
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978-0-7512-0074-4 (9780751200744)
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Part 1 Impacts of economic space on microeconomic theory: the economic man and uncertainty; the relation between oligopoly, uncertainty and space; impacts of space on economic markets; a sketch of our theory. Part 2 Prices and resource allocation: unorganized spatial oligopoly; organized spatial oligopoly; product prices and efficiency; factor prices and efficiency. Part 3 Spatial distribution: the urban setting (intra-urban spatial efficiency); the urban-regional setting (inter-urban efficiency); urban-regional concentration and dispersion; the spatial equilibrium of the firm in economic space. Part 4 General equilibrium, welfare, and social policy: general equilibrium, welfare, and economic space; the theory of the firm in economic space and social policy; theory of the firm in economic space.
