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Structural Macroeconomic Change and the Size Pattern of Manufacturing Firms

The crisis of the so-called Golden Age regime has been paralleled since the late 1960s by an increasing importance of market exchanges as opposed to vertically integrated manufacturing activity, leading to major changes in the size structure of firms. These changes have generally taken the form of a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Traù, Fabrizio
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2003, 2003
Subjects:
Economics
Macroeconomics
Macroeconomics/monetary Economics//financial Economics
Industries
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:The crisis of the so-called Golden Age regime has been paralleled since the late 1960s by an increasing importance of market exchanges as opposed to vertically integrated manufacturing activity, leading to major changes in the size structure of firms. These changes have generally taken the form of an employment shift towards low-scale firms, lower average size and a higher number of manufacturing units. This book tries to explain on theoretical grounds the reasons for such important discontinuity
Physical Description:XV, 187 p online resource
ISBN:9781403943958

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