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"Neoclassical economics has been criticized from various angles by orthodox schools. The same can be said about its particular branch: the theory of the firm. This book demonstrates how a successful theory of the firm can be presented without flawed notions of a neoclassical framework and used to comprehend actual business history. The author argues that we should start from the assumption that businesses are inevitably heterogeneous, as that is their nature, in the process of economic evolution. The book offers an in-depth exploration of neoclassical limitations by examining each of the small details associated with the famous MR=MC rules. It follows a step by step approach, which starts off with neoclassical assumptions and then moves into more empirically sound theory, based both on modelling logic and rooted in real world examples. The author presents a novel discussion on the size of the firm, both in terms of classifying a firm's expansion and about the factors which limit the size of the firm and argues how formal pricing theory can be built using more heterogeneous assumptions about firms. Further, there is a discussion on how firms are rooted in amorphous industries, which

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Author

Mateusz Machaj

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781000412772

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Economics, Business