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Alfred Marshall on big business

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The purpose of this article is to explore Marshall's perspective on the changes of size and organisation of firms in his time and, more generally, the environment of monopolistic tendencies. It examines the Marshallian evolutionary approach to business organisation as already presented in his Principles of Economics and identifies the quality of this approach as responsible for the keen perceptions made in Industry and Trade, the book in which business organisation and monopolistic tendencies are investigated. The consideration of Industry and Trade includes a comparison that identifies similarities between propositions about big business by Marshall and Alfred Chandler, the author whose work stands as the paradigm for the study of the genesis and development of big business. As an exploration of Industry and Trade, this article contributes to the assessment of a still very little studied book and draws attention to Marshall's method of combining theory and history. Copyright The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved., Oxford University Press.

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  • Jaques Kerstenetzky, 2010. "Alfred Marshall on big business," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 34(3), pages 569-586.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cambje:v:34:y:2010:i:3:p:569-586
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    1. Sue Konzelmann & Frank Wilkinson, 2017. "Co-operation and competition in production and exchange: the “district” form of industrial organization and development," Economia e Politica Industriale: Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, Springer;Associazione Amici di Economia e Politica Industriale, vol. 44(4), pages 393-410, December.
    2. Jaques Kerstenetzky, 2018. "The History Of Metal Leve S.A. And Its Leadership In The Brazilian Auto Parts Industry: 1950-1996," Anais do XLIV Encontro Nacional de Economia [Proceedings of the 44th Brazilian Economics Meeting] 26, ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics].
    3. Giocoli, Nicola, 2012. "British economists on competition policy (1890-1920)," MPRA Paper 39245, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Alexandre Chirat & Ulysse Lojkine, 2024. "Three views on economic power," EconomiX Working Papers 2024-31, University of Paris Nanterre, EconomiX.

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