Friday, December 26, 2008

Forgotten Families or Antitrust Economics

Forgotten Families: Ending the Growing Crisis Confronting Children and Working Parents in the Global Economy

Author: Jody Heymann

In the last half-century, radical changes have rippled through the workplace and the home from Boston to Mumbai. In the face of rapid globalization, these changes affect us all, and we can no longer confine ourselves to addressing working and social conditions within our own borders without simultaneously addressing them on a global scale. Based on over a thousand in-depth interviews and survey data from more than 55,000 families spanning five continents, Jody Heymann's Forgotten Families presents the first truly global account of how the changing conditions of work affect us all. Rich in individual stories and deeply human, Forgotten Families proposes innovative and imaginative ideas for solving the problems of the truly belabored together as a global community.

Publishers Weekly

When the mountain won't come to Muhammad, sometimes the mountain must be dynamited, carted off and dropped upon him. Heymann, the founder and director of the Project on Global Working Families, worked for a decade with her research team to drop such a mountain of information on governments and global organizations in order to inspire them to enact economic reforms. Exhaustive in scope, meticulous in detail, her book is a damning indictment of what has gone wrong during "the race to the bottom" between developing countries amid globalizing markets. The book is peppered with heartbreaking stories gleaned from surveys of more than 55,000 families, depicting a worldwide squalor in which children, if they survive infancy, are usually doomed to re-enact their parents' lives at the sweatshop. The portrait is bleak, but Heymann is an optimist. Her solutions, though idealistic, are reasonable: paid maternity leave, improved before- and after-school programs for children, etc. Most readers would have found a magazine article more persuasive, as Heymann's book is burdened with statistics. But in the breadth of its research, this volume will become a valuable primary source for policy makers. (Dec.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.



Interesting book:

Antitrust Economics

Author: Roger D Blair

The second edition of Antitrust Economics provides a thorough treatment of the economic theory that both motivates (and to varying degrees) guides the design and enforcement of the antitrust laws of the Untied States. Citing relevant legislation and landmark court cases, the text offers a comprehensive analysis of both horizontal and vertical antitrust issues and uses economic theory to evaluate antitrust policy throughout.
The clear, accessible prose in Antitrust Economics explains the theory/policy cycle and provides thorough analysis of market structure and business conduct as they relate to antitrust policy. The text moves fluidly from theory to real world court cases to public policy, making it ideal for upper-level economics majors or law school courses in antitrust law.



Table of Contents:

Antitrust in a Market Economy

The Case for Competition

The Case Against Monopoly

Antitrust Response to Monopoly

Private Enforcement

Antitrust Building Blocks: Market Definition and Market Power

The Law of Monopolization

Exclusionary Practices

Collusion: Horizontal Price Fixing

Alternative Forms of Horizontal Collusion

Oligopoly and Tacit Collusion

Horizontal Mergers

Price Discrimination

The Theory of Vertical Integration

Vertical Merger Policy

Maximum Resale Price Fixing

Resale Price Maintenance

Tying Arrangements

Reciprocity

Exclusive Dealing

Territorial and Customer Restrictions

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