These papers by Teece cover the theory of the firm and its implications for economic performance, as they concern managers and policy-makers. Key topics addressed include: the nature of the firm and dynamic capabilities; diversification and vertical integration; and joint ventures.

Focuses on leading economists who were born, or have spent the greater part of their lives, in America.

'Every economist would benefit from reading this book. It contains the papers of an imaginative, rigorous and generous scholar.' - Geoffrey Wood, The Economic Journal These volumes provide insight into a man absorbed and preoccupied by economic scholarship. Economic Analysis and Political Ideology, the first volume with a foreword by Nobel Laureate James Buchanan, reproduces articles dealing with Professor Brunner's socioeconomic analysis. The second volume, Monetary Theory and Monetary Policy, with a foreword by Alan Meltzer, deals with macroeconomic issues.

Hal Varian, in the course of a long and distinguished career, has made a seminal contribution to many branches of economics. His pathbreaking work on the development of economic theory, finance, industrial organization and econometrics is represented in this important new collection of key articles published over the last twenty years.