Industrial Concentration And Inflation

Industrial economics pamphlet exploring the relationship between size of enterprise and inflation in the USA - refutes economic theory claiming industrial concentration to be a source of inflation, and concludes that deconcentration would have negative effects.

Comparison of monopoly trends and the economic implications in the UK and the USA - includes economic theories of industrial concentration, the marketing behaviour and profit performance of industrial mergers, etc. Bibliography pp. 125 to 128 and statistical tables.

Study of trends in industrial concentration and their implications for prices and productivity in the USA manufacturing industry, 1947 to 1972 - shows that higher productivity growth and smaller price increases occurred where concentration increased most; claims that industrial policy should not hinder formation of quasimonopolys. Graphs, references and tables.