TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferguson, Paul R.  ;
AU  - Ferguson, Glenys J. ;
TI  - Industrial economics : issues and perspectives
SN  - 0333614925 
U1  - 338 
PY  - 1994///, 1998
CY  - Hampshire, Basingstoke : 
PB  - Macmillan, 
KW  - Industrial organization (Economic theory)
KW  - Transaction costs
N1  - Includes index; The structure-conduct-performance paradigm --
Market concentration --
The advertising debate --
Monopolies --
good or bad? --
Invention, innovation and diffusion --
The foundations of industry policy --
Industry policy in practice --
State or private control? --
Deindustrialisation
N2  - This is a revised and updated edition of Paul Ferguson's successful textbook. Industrial Economics has reached a crossroads in its development; the established approach, based on the neoclassical theory of the firm, is being challenged by a variety of ideas and concepts. Paramount among these are transactions costs, public choice theory and the work of the Austrian School. Industrial Economics integrates these new approaches alongside a critical exposition of traditional theory
ER  -