ABSTRACT
The work of G.B. Richardson has given insights into key issues and debates such as markets versus hierarchies, price stability, the economics of information and the concept of competition based upon differentiated firms.
This collection encourages further development of Richardson's themes. It will make excellent reading for students looking at the capability or competence approach to the firm, and for all those wishing to familiarise themselves with the work of this important economist.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 7|17 pages
Information and Co-ordination in an Effective Competitive Process
Downie's evolutionary model as a means of resolving Richardson's problem with competition in the context of post-Marshallian economics
chapter 13|18 pages
Limits to a Firm's Rate of Growth
The Richardsonian view and its contemporary empirical significance