Prices : : Issues in Theory, Practice, and Public Policy / / ed. by Almarin Phillips, Oliver E. Williamson.

The sixteen essays in this collection are organized around five themes. The first group is concerned with the pricing implications of recent developments in the theory of the firm. The subject of the second group is wage-price guidelines, in theory and practice. The third set deals with pricing in r...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©1968
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:Reprint 2016
Language:English
Series:Anniversary Collection
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • 1. BEHAVIORAL RULES AND THE THEORY OF THE FIRM
  • 2. A DYNAMIC STOCHASTIC THEORY OF MANAGERIAL BEHAVIOR
  • 3. AN ATTEMPT TO SYNTHESIZE SOME THEORIES OF THE FIRM
  • 4. REQUIEM FOR A LIGHTWEIGHT: A CRITICAL HISTORICAL SKETCH
  • 5. IN DEFENSE OF WAGE-PRICE GUIDEPOSTS . . . PLUS
  • 6. WAGE AND PRICE DETERMINATION IN Μ ACROECONOMETRICS
  • 7. UNEMPLOYMENT AND INFLATION: THE CRUEL DILEMMA
  • 8. REASONABLE RULES FOR RATE REGULATION: PLAUSIBLE POLICIES FOR AN IMPERFECT WORLD
  • 9. PRACTICAL PROBLEMS OF MARGINAL-COST PRICING IN PUBLIC ENTERPRISE: ENGLAND
  • 10. PRACTICAL PROBLEMS OF MARGINAL-COST PRICING IN PUBLIC ENTERPRISE: THE UNITED STATES
  • 11. APPLICATIONS OF DECISION THEORY IN PRICING STRATEGY
  • 12. MARKET MODELING-A CASE HISTORY
  • 13. PSYCHOLOGICAL PRICING IN THE FOOD INDUSTRY
  • 14. BUSINESS PRICING: THE IRRATIONAL USE OF IRRATIONAL RULES OF THUMB
  • 15. THE UNDERLYING RATIONALITY OF BUSINESS PRICING DECISIONS
  • 16. PRICING PRACTICES AND ANTITRUST
  • Index