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The Oxford Handbook of Capitalism
Edited by Dennis C. Mueller
576 pages
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23 illustrations
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171x248mm
978-0-19-539117-6
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Hardback
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24 May 2012
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- This volume contains an up-to-date analysis of the positive attributes of capitalism and its potential disadvantages including analyses of financial bubbles, managerial compensation, and merger waves
- High profile contributors
The financial crisis that began in 2008 and its lingering aftermath have caused many intellectuals and politicians to question the virtues of capitalist systems. The 19 original essays in this handbook, written by leading scholars from Asia, North America, and Europe, analyze both the strengths and weaknesses of capitalist systems. The volume opens with essays on the historical and legal origins of capitalism. These are followed by chapters describing the nature, institutions, and advantages of capitalism: entrepreneurship, innovation, property rights, contracts, capital markets, and the modern corporation. The next set of chapters discusses the problems that can arise in capitalist
systems including monopoly, principal agent problems, financial bubbles, excessive managerial compensation, and empire building through wealth-destroying mergers. Two subsequent essays examine in detail the properties of the "Asian model" of capitalism as exemplified by Japan and South Korea, and capitalist systems where ownership and control are largely separated as in the United States and United Kingdom. The handbook concludes with an essay on capitalism in the 21st century by Nobel Prize winner Edmund Phelps.Readership: Courses in industrial economics and industrial organization, financial economics; law courses dealing with corporate governance issues. Professional economists. College graduates with
economics background.
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Edited by Dennis C. Mueller, Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, University of Vienna Dennis C. Mueller is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at University of Vienna. Contributors:
Dennis C. Mueller, Editor, is a Professor of Economics, Emeritus at University of Vienna. Before coming to Vienna, he was at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests are industrial economic, public choice and constitutional political economy.; William J. Baumol is Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurship and Academic Director of the Berkley Center for
Entrepreneurship and Innovation at New York University; and Senior Economist and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University.; Thorsten Beck is a Professor of Economics at Tilburg University and Chairman of the European Banking Center, as well as a CEPR fellow. Before joining Tilburg University and the Center, he worked at the Development Research Group of the World Bank.; John C. Coffee, Jr. is the Adolf A. Berle Professor at the Columbia University Law School, and Director of its Center on Corporate Governance. He is a Fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.; Martin J. Conyon is a Professor of Corporate Governance and Finance at Lancaster University and Senior Fellow and Lecturer at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.; Keith Cowling is a Professor, Emeritus at the
University of Warwick. His research interests are in industrial economics, especially the deficiencies of monopoly capitalism, economics and democracy, industrial policy and corporate governance and the public interest.; Jeffry A. Frieden is a Professor at the Department of Government at Harvard University. His research focus is on the politics of international monetary and financial relations.; Victor Goldberg is the Jerome L. Greene Professor of Transactional Law at Columbia Law School. His areas of research are law and economics, antitrust, regulation, and contracts.; Tilman Klumpp is an Assistant Professor at the Economics Department at Emory University. His research fields are microeconomics, applied game theory, public economics, political economy, discrimination and industrial
organization.; Robert E. Litan is vice president of research and policy at the Kauffmann Foundation.; Burton G. Malkiel is Chemical Bank Chairman's Professor of Economics, Emeritus and Senior Economist at Princeton University.; Randall Morck is Jarislowsky Distinguished Professor of Finance and University Professor at the School of Business at the University of Alberta. His research interests are corporate finance, economic development, and political economy.; Hiroyuki Odagiri is a Professor at Seijo University and Professor Emeritus at Hitotsubashi University. His research interests are: theory of the firm, industrial organization and economic studies of innovation.; Mark J. Roe is the David Berg Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. His research interests are corporate bankruptcy and
reorganization, corporate finance and corporate law. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.; Richard R. Nelson is the George Blumenthal Professor Emeritus of International and Public Affairs, Business and Law at Columbia University. His research has concentrated on the processes of long-run economic change, with particular emphasis on technological advances and on the evolution of economic institutions.; Edmund S. Phelps is McVickar Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University and Director of the Columbia Center on Capitalism and Society. He was the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics.; Paul H. Rubin is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics at Emory University. His main area of research is Law and Economics.; F. M. Scherer is Aetna Professor
Emeritus at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. His research specialties are industrial economics and the economics of technological change.; Carl J. Schramm is the President and Chief Executive Officer at the Kauffmann Foundation.; David J. Teece is the Thomas W. Tusher Chair in Global Business and Director, Center for Global Strategy and Governance at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.; Philip R Tomlinson is a Lecturer at the School of Management at the University of Bath. His research interests are globalisation, governance, development and clusters.; Bernard Yeung is the Stephen Riady Distinguished Professor and Dean at NUS Business School, National University of Singapore.
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"It addresses what is right and wrong about modern capitalism from a variety of perspectives, which in the aggregate provide a balanced view of its strengths and weaknesses." - E.L. Whalen, CHOICE
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Preface
Introduction: Capitalism: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Dennis C. Mueller, University of Vienna
I. Origins
1. The Modern Capitalist World Economy: A Historical Overview, Jeffry A. Frieden (Harvard Law School)
2. Legal Institutions and Economic Development, Thorsten Beck (Tilburg University)
3. Capital Markets and Financial Politics: Preferences and Institutions, Mark Roe (Harvard University)
II. The Nature of Capitalism
4. The Four Types of Capitalism, Innovation, and Economic Growth, William J. Baumol (New York University and Princeton University), Robert E. Litan, Carl J. Schramm (Kauffman Foundation)
5. The Dynamics of Capitalism, F. M. Scherer (Harvard University)
III. The Institutions of Capitalism
6. Capital Markets, Thorsten Beck (Tilburg University)
7. Property Rights and Capitalism, Paul Rubin and Tilman Klumpp (Emory University)
8. Management and Governance of the Business Enterprise: Agency, Contracting, and Capabilities Perspectives, David J. Teece (University of California, Berkeley)
9. Contracts, Victor Goldberg (Columbia Law School)
IV. Problems with Capitalism
10. Capitalism as a Mixed Economic System, Richard Nelson (Columbia University)
11. Monopoly Capitalism, Keith Cowling (University of Warwick) and Philip R Tomlinson (University of Bath)
12. Agency Problems and the Fate of Capitalism, Randall Morck (University of Alberta) and Bernard Yeung (National University of Singapore)
13. The Governance of Executive Compensation, Martin J. Conyon (The Wharton School)
14. Bubbles in Asset Prices, Burton G. Malkiel (Princeton University)
15. Mergers and the Market for Corporate Control, Dennis C. Mueller (University of Vienna)
V. Capitalism and the State: Different Approaches
16. Dispersed Ownership:The Theories, The Evidence, and the Enduring Tension Between "Lumpers" and "Splitters", John C. Coffee (Columbia Law School)
17. The East Asian (mostly Japanese) Model of Capitalism, Hiroyuki Odagiri (Seijo University)
VI. Wither Capitalism?
18. Refounding Capitalism, Edmund Phelps (Columbia, University)
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