Rivalry

In Business, Science, Among Nations

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Rivalry is an attempt to understand facets of entrepreneurial societies by integrating the economic analysis with historical, political and psychological considerations, customarily shunned by economists. The author argues that decisions to make new business ventures, and readiness to take risks are both related to concepts of ranking hierarchies on local, national or international levels. He then constructs a theory of business enterprise and of rivalry supported by evidence on entrepreneurship, innovation, advertising, all examined with their historical, political or organisational concerns. This notion of rivalry among businessmen is used to derive guidelines for anti-trust legislation. Instead of pricing, profitability, concentration ratios and other criteria used today to infer non-competitive behaviour, he suggests using a measure of a firm's relative rate of innovation to infer it. By extending the notion of rivalry to the political sphere, national and international, guidelines are derived to evaluate the performance of state-owned enterprises and to examine policies related to free trade.

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"Reading Brenner will illuminate the analysis of business behaviour, highlighting the need to understand the 'leapfrogging' game in any interpretation of a firm's rate of growth. Competition and risk are crucial phenomena affecting a firm's performance, and the human response must lie at the centre of any study of business history. This will make Rivalry an important text for anyone considering such issues." J.F. Wilson, Business History "This is an important book. Schumpeter would have been impressed." Graham Bannock, Business Economist "Rivalry, extensively researched and documented, is a badly needed, cogently argued, clearly written reaction against static, esoteric economic model building." R.O. Werner, Choice "The quest for a parsimonious theory of economic change is hardly novel. It is comparatively rare, though, that historical and contemporary fact are allowed to act as the judge of whether the theoretical enterprise should stand or fall. Reuven Brenner's Rivalry: In Business, Science, among Nations makes refreshing reading for its painstaking effort to provide empirical support for the argument." Edward H. Lorenz, Business History Review

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Preface	p. ix
Theory of the entrepreneurial firm	p. 1
What is a "market"?	p. 1
Decision making and the goal of enterprises	p. 3
What do firms do?	p. 16
Hierarchy, leapfrogging, and productivity	p. 19
Where is the demand curve?	p. 21
Conclusions	p. 26
Who are the entreprenuers? (or, don't confuse brains with a bull market)	p. 29
Adversity and entrepreneurship	p. 30
Luck, wealth, and diminished entrepreneurship	p. 37
Entrepreneurship - some broader perspectives	p. 42
Conclusions	p. 44
Competition - the leapfrogging game	p. 46
"Competition" defined	p. 47
Prices and sizes of enterprises	p. 49
Monopolies and oligopolies	p. 57
Innovations or prices? A criterion for competitive behavior	p. 62
Conclusions	p. 75
Advertising, memory, and custom	p. 77
Theory of memory and consumer behavior	p. 78
Advertising fa ts, or why are you paying $2.99 for a widget?	p. 80
Melodies and memories	p. 82
Advertising and other sources of information	p. 84
Catchy phrases or fraudulent advertising? Policy implications	p. 86
Noncustomary behavior, innovations, and advertising	p. 88
Conclusions	p. 93
Inventions and innovations in business and science	p. 97
Economics and creativity: words and facts	p. 98
Inventions and innovations: further implications for the theory of the firm	p. 105
The resistance to innovations in business and science	p. 110
Inventions and crises	p. 122
Origins of state-owned enterprises	p. 124
State-owned enterprises - in what context?	p. 124
Economies of scales and externalities - where are the facts?	p. 125
The emergence of state-owned enterprises - regularities	p. 131
Decision making and the role of the state	p. 135
State-owned enterprises - further evidence	p. 138
Policy implications	p. 143
Restoring the wealth of nations	p. 146
Industrial policies - a brief historical perspective	p. 147
Free trade, R and D, and politics: myths and facts	p. 150
More on policy	p. 155
Conclusions	p. 158
Appendixes	p. 161
Decision making and uncertainty: a dynamic approach - Appendix to Chapter 1	p. 161
Ownership and decision making - Appendix to Chapter 6	p. 170
Notes	p. 173
References	p. 211
Name index	p. 235
Subject index	p. 241
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