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pt. I. The micro-foundations of economic organization : extending behavioral assumptions on knowledge, interest, and rationality -- pt. II. The constitution of economic organization between interacting and contracting -- pt. III. The shaping of economic organization between design and evolution -- pt. IV. Human resources and economic organization between assets and actors -- pt. V. Technical assets and economic organization between determinants and opportunities -- pt. VI. Forms of economic organization between discrete alternatives and combinative configurations -- pt. VII. Conclusions.

This compendium of essays brings together some of William Baumol's most distinguished and acclaimed papers with some that are more rare, including a discussion of the growth and innovation mechanism that accounts for the unprecedented growth performance of the market economies. Amongst many other papers of note are a discussion of appropriate regulatory principles for privatized and deregulated firms, and a survey of the accomplishments of economists in the past century and the past millennium. This collection includes the following essays: * Productivity Growth, Convergence and Welfare: What the Long-Run Data Show * On the Possibility of Continuing Expansion of Finite Resources * Social Wants and Dismal Science: The Curious Case of the Climbing Costs of Health and Teaching * Towards Microeconomics of Innovation: Growth Engine Hallmark of Market Economics * Use of Antitrust to Subvert Competition * Predation and the Logic of the Average Variable Cost Test. The papers engage with an eclectic range of issues and represent a vignette of the author's varied contributions to the economic literature

I. Theory -- 1. On the Current State of Knowledge in Industrial Organization -- 2. On the Core Concepts of Industrial Economics -- 3. European Industrial Organization: Entrepreneurial Economics in an Organizational Setting -- 4. Mainstreams in Industrial Organization: Challenges and Tasks -- 5. On the Currents in Mainstream Industrial Organization -- II. International Aspects -- 6. International Competition, Productivity Change and the Organization of Production -- 7. Industrial Organization in an International Framework -- 8. Exporting Behaviour and Market Structure: Evidence from the United States -- III. Antitrust Policy -- 9. United States' Antitrust: At the Crossroads -- 10. The Treatment of Dominant Forms in U.K. Competition Legislation -- 11. The Treatment of Dominance in German Antitrust Policy -- 12. Competition Policies and Measures of Dominant Power -- 13. Lessons of Economics for Antitrust: Problems of Antitrust for Economists -- IV. Deregulation -- 14. What Do We Understand about the Economics of Regulation? The Effects of U.S. Transport Deregulation -- 15. Deregulation of European Air Transport -- V. Industrial Policy -- 16. Industrial Policy in Theory and Reality -- 17. Public Support of Innovative Activity; Lessons from U.S. Industrial Policy -- 18. Industrial Policy and Innovation in Europe.