New Firms: An Economic Perspective / Edition 1

by Peter Johnson

Overview

This book, first published in 1986, is an important contribution to the economic analysis of new firms. It emphasises the importance of analysing the economic inter-relationship between new and established firms. These links are especially relevant in the assessment of the employment effects of formation activity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815371281
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/12/2019
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: Industrial Economics
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Peter Johnson is the critically acclaimed author of several collections of poetry, short stories, and novels, including Miracles & Mortifications, winner of the James Laughlin Award, Eduardo & “I,” Pretty Happy!, Love Poems for the Millennium, Rants and Raves: Selected and New Prose Poems, I’m a Man, and two young adult novels: Loserville and What Happened, a Paterson Prize winner that ALA Booklist called the “most gorgeously written YA of 2007.” Johnson is the recipient of two creat

Table of Contents

1. The Nature of the New Firm 2. New Firms and Industrial Competition 3. The Extent of Formation Activity 4. The Decision to Set Up in Business 5. New Firms and Employment Creation 6. New Firms and Regional Development 7. Unemployment, Redundancy and New Firms 8. Policies Towards New Firms