Industrial Organization or Public Personnel Administration

Industrial Organization: Theory and Practice

Author: Don E Waldman

Written solely for the undergraduate audience, this streamlined Third Edition of Industrial Organization: Theory and Practice——which features early coverage of Antitrust——punctuates its modern introduction to industrial organization with relevant empirical data and case studies to show students how to apply theoretical tools.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction	1
2	The firm and its costs	17
3	Competition and monopoly	51
4	Market structure	88
5	Monopoly practices	143
6	Market power and performance : the empirical evidence	161
7	Game theory : a framework for understanding oligopolistic behavior	207
8	The development of oligopoly theory	230
9	Collusion : the great prisoner's dilemma	266
10	Cartels in action	303
11	Oligopoly behavior : entry and pricing to deter entry	335
12	Oligopoly behavior : entry and nonpricing strategies to deter entry	372
13	Product differentiation and advertising	416
14	Technological change and research and development	469
15	Price discrimination	515
16	Vertical integration and vertical relationships	562
17	Regulation and deregulation	606

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Public Personnel Administration

Author: Dennis D Riley

This book presents snapshots of the issues and events transforming the world of public personnel administration as the new century begins.

The book includes both traditional and contemporary issues such as compensation, training, job analysis, sexual harassment, drug testing, and the ADA. This updated edition is easy to read and contains exercises and case problems that help readers apply concepts to examples from real life.

For those interested in public personnel management.

Booknews

A textbook for a course in personnel administration in which Riley (U. of Wisconsin-Stevens Point) provides a snapshot of public personnel administration as it had been transformed by the turn of the century. His premise is that in order to create an effective, responsible, and humane government, it is necessary, though perhaps not sufficient, to have people working in it who exercise those qualities. He includes discussion questions and exercises. No date is mentioned for the first edition. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)