Harold Demsetz - The Economics of the Business Firm: Seven Critical Commentaries

The essays in this volume break new ground in the theory of the business firm and its applications in economics. A leading analyst of industrial organization, Professor Demsetz critically examines current debates on the existence, definition, and organization of the firm and discusses issues related to the emerging theory of the firm. He then analyzes the relation among business ownership, wealth, and economic development. Subsequent essays offer new perspectives on competition, profit maximization and rational behavior, and shed new light on managers' compensation, antitrust policy, and the accuracy of firms' accounting data.

• First commentary: The firm of theory: its definition and existence
• Second commentary: Agency and nonagency explanations of the firm's organization
• Third commentary: Enterprise control, wealth, and economic development
• Fourth commentary: Profit maximization and rational behavior
• Fifth commentary: The use and abuse of accounting profit data
• Sixth commentary: Management compensation and tournament theory
• Seventh commentary: The intensity and dimensionality of competition

Harold Demsetz 的其中一本重要著作, 非常清楚而且詳細地介紹公司理論及其於經濟學的應用.極力推介此書連同 Ronald Coase 的文章一起細閱!