Product Description: Why are most businesses less efficient that they could be? Why do two identical Ford plants in England and Germany, manufacturing identical cars, have vastly different rates of production? Harvey Leibenstein explores such questions in depth, using ideas and evidence from economics, game theory, psychology, and other disciplines...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The author uses X-efficiency theory to reject the theory of equality of bargaining power and argues that inflation is caused as much by individual firms' behavior and pricing policies as by those macroeconomic factors traditionally viewed as the cause.

Product Description: Harvey Leibenstein has written a major new book in microeconomic theory. It is a sophisticated reorientation of microtheory that breaks away from the conventional, highly refined neoclassical theory, which in turn is in the direct line of descent from Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (1776)...read more