Industrial Dynamics: Technological, Organizational, and Structural Changes in Industries and Firms

1 Industrial Dynamics: An Overview.- 2 The Dynamics of Supply and Economic Growth.- 3 The Supply Side: Technology and History.- 4 Economic Change and the Boundaries of the Firm.- 5 'Development Blocks' in Industrial Economics.- 6 Evolution of Japan's Corporate and Industrial Networks.- 7 Cooperation Between Rivals: Informal Know-how Trading.- 8 Capitalism as an Engine of Progress.- 9 Rent and Technological Change in the Extractive Industries.- 10 The U.S.-Japan Semiconductor Trade Agreement in the Globalization of Imperfect and Dynamic Competition.- 11 Adjustment to International Disturbances in Imperfectly Competitive Markets: Canadian Manufacturing in the 1970s.- 12 Free versus Controlled Competition.- About the Contributors.- Author Index.