Table of Contents for The Bigness Complex

The Bigness Complex
Walter Adams and James W. Brock
Table of Contents for The Bigness Complex

Table of Contents for The Bigness Complex

List of Tables and Charts

Preface

    Part I. The Problem of Power

  1. Power and Public Policy
  2. Economists and Power

    3. Part II. The Apologetics of Power

  3. Operating Efficiency
  4. Innovation Efficiency
  5. Social Efficiency

    6. Part III. The Political Economy of Power: A Historical Perspective

  6. The Revolution of 1776: American Government
  7. The Revolution of 1776: British Economic Policy

    8. Part IV. Competition and the Control of Power

  8. The Role of Antitrust
  9. Cartels
  10. Monopoly
  11. The Merger Problem
  12. Horizontal Mergers and Joint Ventures
  13. Vertical Mergers
  14. Conglomerate Mergers
  15. The Limitations of Antitrust

    16. Part V. Government Intervention and Private Power

  16. The Regulation of Power
  17. Airlines: Regulation and Deregulation
  18. The Limits of Deregulation
  19. The Protection of Power
  20. The Bailout of Power

    21. Part VI. The Coalescence of Power

  21. The Labor-Industrial Complex
  22. The "Sports-Industrial" Complex

    23. Part VII. Public Policy Alternatives

  23. The Neo-Darwinist Vision
  24. The Neoliberal Vision
  25. A Public Philosophy

Notes

Index

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