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Product Description: This work collects 26 of the author's most important papers on an array of competition policy issues. Among other subjects, the papers address the historical antecedents and rationale of competition policy, the logic of market definition, and the role of competition policy in an open world economy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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This work is part of the Integrating National Economies series. As global markets for goods, services and financial assets have become increasingly integrated, national governments no longer have as much control over economic markets. With the completion of the Uruguay Round of the GATT talks, the world economy has entered a fresh phase requiring different rules and different levels of international cooperation. Policies once thought to be entirely domestic and appropriately determined by national political institutions, are now subject to international constraints. Cogent analysis of this deeper integration of the world economy, and guidelines for government policies, are urgent priorities. This series aims to meet these needs over a range of 21 books by some of the world's leading economists, political scientists, foreign policy specialists and government officials. All the books in the series are offered at the same price: #22.50 for hardbacks and #8.50 for paperbacks.

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Outlines, in text and illustrations, the development of computers, how they work, and their many uses.