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Small and Big Business. Economic Problems of the Size of Firms.

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Early work of Kaleckian resp. post-Keynesian economist Joseph Steindl

Author(s): Joseph Steindl
Series: Institute of Statistics Monograph No. 1
Publisher: Basil Blackwell
Year: 1945

Language: English
Pages: 66
City: Oxford
Tags: keynesian,postkeynesian,firm,kaleckian,monopoly

INTRODUCTION

I. MARSHALL AND THE REPRESENTATIVE FIRM
A. Statement of Marshall's theory
B. Criticism
C. An alternative view

II.GENERAL SURVEY OF FACTORS INFLUENCING THE RELATIVE POSITION OF LARGE AND SMALL FIRMS
A. Largescale economies
B. Imperfect competition and oligopoly
C. The cost of borrowing
D. The importance of large scale economies

III. THE PROBLEM OF CAPITAL INTENSITY
A. Profit margin and profit rate
B. The measurement of efficiency
C. Real wages and interest

IV. THE FINANCIAL STRUCTURE OF FIRMS AND THE PROBLEMS OF RISK
A. Statistical Evidence as to profit rates in U.S. corporations
B. Profit rates, fmancial structure, and risk
C. Gearing and Size
D. Income-Corporations and Deficit-Corporations

V. SOME EVIDENCE OF CONCENTRATION
A. Concentration in U.S. manufacturing, I9I4-I937
B. Absolute and relative concentration
C. Concentration of capital

VI. WHAT FACTORS MAKE FOR THE CONTINUED EXISTENCE OF SMALL FIRMS?

VII. TECHNICAL PROGRESS AND THE SIZE OF THE FIRM