The economics of industrial organization

by William G. Shepherd

Book Overview

Covers all topics in the field of industrial organization, including its history, schools of thought, forms of competition and monopoly, and monopoly's effect on performance. The text also contains... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0132314649
• ISBN13: 9780132314640
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Prentice-Hall
• Length: 463 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A must

This book is not going to take you through the obscure world of the hard math to help you understand how the Industrial Organization theory works. It provides real-world and anecdotic examples and data which help theory make more sense. It also provides extremely clear and graphical explanations on each topic which are accompanied by valuable "Questions for Review" sections after each chapter. It is like reading comics and with that I mean that Shepherd has a gift at making his points clear. It is a must for undergrad students, however, I would not recommend it if you are looking for a text that emphasizes mathematical analysis. In that case it could only be used as a reference book for the intuitive part of the concepts and for a historical summary of theories.

I've reviewed it twice. A very good text !

Complete and easy to read text.