Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I Concentration and development -- 1 Reproduction and transformation in the theory of the market: observations on Josef Steindl's theory of capitalist dynamics -- 2 Steindl's analysis of firm growth and the tendency toward industry concentration -- 3 An application of Steindl's theory of concentration to the US meat packing industry, 1865-1988 -- PART II Distribution and growth -- 4 Steindl's theory of maturity and stagnation and its relevance today -- 5 On industry concentration and the transition to monopoly capitalism: a knife-edge model of "Steindlian" dynamics -- 6 Steindl on growth and cycles -- PART III Maturity and stagnation -- 7 Methodology and industrial maturity in Steindl's capitalism -- 8 Market-limited growth and twentieth-century economic history: rethinking economic stagnation in the American case -- 9 Monopoly capitalism and stagnation -- 10 Trend and cycle -- Index.

This collection honours the work of the eminent economist Josef Steindl. Steindl's work is illuminated through a critical appraisal of its central constructs with a focus on its relevance to current economic conditions. This collection charts the thinking of one of the leading economic theorists of the twentieth century.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.