Prices: Issues in Theory, Practice, and Public Policy
β Scribed by Almarin Phillips (editor); Oliver E. Williamson (editor)
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 264
- Edition
- Reprint 2016
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
These sixteen essays are organized around five themes: pricing implications of developments in the theory of the firm; wage-price guidelines; pricing in regulated industries; marketing models and empirical studies of pricing behavior; rationality of business pricing decisions; and implications of pricing practices for antitrust enforcement.
These sixteen essays are organized around five themes: pricing implications of developments in the theory of the firm; wage-price guidelines; pricing in regulated industries; marketing models and empirical studies of pricing behavior; rationality of business pricing decisions; and implications of pricing practices for antitrust enforcement.
β¦ Table of Contents
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 Ξ 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 MODELINGβA 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
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