Economic Analysis of the Corporate Economy: A Survey and Critique

Abstract

This piece has two general purposes; it is intended mainly to provide a frame of reference within which the individual papers printed in this book may be read. It also incorporates as much as possible of the record of the conference held to discuss these papers: we decided not to include the discussion in the usual transcript form on grounds of readability, nor, in the present form, to attempt to allocate the points made among individuals.

I am extremely grateful to Robin Marris, George Eads, John Eatwell and Mervyn King, who have read and criticized an earlier draft of this paper, and with whom I have had fruitful discussions of its subject-matter at other times. I am responsible for the mistakes that remain.