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Scherer, Frederic Michael was born on August 1, 1932 in Ottawa, Illinois, United States. Son of Walter King and Margaret (Lucey) Scherer.
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Covering industrial market structure, conduct and performance, this textbook gives attention to the theoretical conclusions, empirical findings, and implications for anti-trust, regulatory and patent policies. The 3rd edition has been revised to reflect theoretical, empirical and policy developments of the last decade, and new insights into strategic behaviour from game theory are given prominence. The chapters on anti-trust policy have been integrated with the related theoretical materials, and numerous other new insights provide a basis for industrial organization research of the 1990s.
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During the 1970s and 1980s, American manufacturing enterprises saw their technological dominance challenged by increasingly tough competition from abroad. This book investigates business responses to those challenges. On average, F.M. Scherer shows, 308 US companies reacted to rising imports of high-technology products by cutting back research and development expenditures as a percentage of sales. The cutbacks were particularly large in industries protected by voluntary trade restraints agreements and other trade barriers. Using statistical data and 11 case studies, Scherer finds that company responses to new high-technology competition from abroad were highly diverse. Aggressive reactions predominated in firms producing colour film, wet shavers, medical imaging apparatus, fibre optics, and earth-moving equipment. But the efforts of US manufacturers in other lines such as colour television, VCRs, and facsimile machines, were too meagre to repel technologically innovative overseas challengers. Exploring why reactions differed so much from case to case, Scherer finds systematic explanations in such variables as the multinationality of enterprises, domestic market structure, links to academic science bases, and the educational background of top managers. He concludes by offering proposals to improve the competitiveness of American high-technology companies.
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Industry Structure, Strategy, and Public Policy is the result of two decades of the author's successful teaching and classroom experience using a case approach to organization. Designed to serve either as a core text or supplemental case book, Industry Structure, Strategy, and Public Policy works to help students learn relevant economic theory through the use of rich, real-world industries. Nine industry case studies integrate theories in industrial organization with historical and statistical information as well as important national and international public policy of problems. Scherer clearly demonstrates to the readers the relevancy of issues in industrial organization to the economic and business world within which they work.
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Two hundred years ago, the first Industrial Revolution sparked a dramatic acceleration in the quantity of goods and services available to the average citizen--a trend of steadily increasing real income per capita that continues to this day. Since that time, economists have struggled to develop systematic explanations for what caused the sudden, rapid increase, why the economy keeps growing, and why the rate of growth varies in different time periods and nations. In this book, F. M. Scherer traces the evolution of economic growth theory from the Industrial Revolution to the present. Emphasizing technological change as the most crucial dynamic force for growth, Scherer analyzes early hypotheses that paid little attention to new technologies, follows the emergence of theories that increasingly emphasized technological change, and reviews the current state of economic growth theory. Pointing out a lack of solid microbehavioral foundations to support contemporary "new growth" ideas, Scherer then supplies some foundational "bricks" concerning financial investment and human capital, and concludes by exploring the prospects for sustaining rapid growth into the next century. Copublished with the British-North American Committee
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( In 1700, most composers were employees of noble courts ...)
In 1700, most composers were employees of noble courts or the church. But by the nineteenth century, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Verdi, and many others functioned as freelance artists teaching, performing, and selling their compositions in the private marketplace. While some believe that Mozart's career marks a clean break between these two periods, this book tells the story of a more complex and interesting transition. F. M. Scherer first examines the political, intellectual, and economic roots of the shift from patronage to a freelance market. He describes the eighteenth-century cultural "arms race" among noble courts, the spread of private concert halls and opera houses, the increasing attendance of middle-class music lovers, and the founding of conservatories. He analyzes changing trends in how composers acquired their skills and earned their living, examining such impacts as demographic developments and new modes of transportation. The book offers insight into the diversity of composers' economic aspirations, the strategies through which they pursued success, the burgeoning music publishing industry, and the emergence of copyright protection. Scherer concludes by drawing some parallels to the economic state of music composition in our own times. Written by a leading economist with an unusually broad knowledge of music, this fascinating account is directed toward individuals intrigued by the world of classical composers as well as those interested in economic history or the role of money in art.
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Scherer, Frederic Michael was born on August 1, 1932 in Ottawa, Illinois, United States. Son of Walter King and Margaret (Lucey) Scherer.
AB with honors, University Michigan, 1954. Master of Business Administration with high distinction, Harvard University, 1958. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1963.
Doctor (honorary), University Hohenheim, 1996.
Assistant professor Princeton (New Jersey) University, 1963-1966. Professor economics University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1966-1972. Chief economist Federal Trade Commission, Washington, 1974-1976.
Professor economics Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1976-1982. Joseph Wharton professor political economy Swarthmore (Pennsylvania) College, 1982-1989. Aetna professor public policy and management Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1989-2000, emeritus professor, since 2000.
Visiting professor Central European University, Prague, 1993—1994. Arthur Andersen distinguished visitor University Cambridge, 1997. Lecturer Princeton University, 2000—2005.
Ludwig Erhard visiting professor University Bayreuth, 2000. Visiting professor Haverford College, 2004—2006. Organizer, interviewee American Bar Association, Autitrust Section Oral History Project, 2009.
( Leverage hidden similarities and connections to succeed...)
( Leverage hidden similarities and connections to succeed...)
( Two hundred years ago, the first Industrial Revolution ...)
(Covering industrial market structure, conduct and perform...)
( This perennial bestseller, now in its 2014/2015 edition...)
(Industry Structure, Strategy, and Public Policy is the re...)
(During the 1970s and 1980s, American manufacturing enterp...)
( The Power of Customer Misbehavior explores the importan...)
( This book covers the consolidation and merger of corpor...)
( Few observers are unimpressed by the economic ambition ...)
(This text has been revised to reflect theoretical, empiri...)
(This text has been revised to reflect theoretical, empiri...)
(When it comes to home renovation, there's no substitute f...)
( In 1700, most composers were employees of noble courts ...)
(This work is part of the Integrating National Economies s...)
(Book by Scherer, Frederic M., Beckenstein, Alan, Kaufer, ...)
(Book by Scherer, F. M.)
Author: The Weapons Acquisition Process, 1964, Industrial Market Structure and Economic Performance, 1970, revised edition, 1980, 1990, The Economics of Multi-Plant Operation, 1975, Innovation and Growth, 1984, International High-Technology Competition, 1992, Competition Policies for an Integrated World Economy, 1994, Industry Structure, Strategy and Public Policy, 1996, New Perspectives on Economic Growth and Technological Innovation, 1999, Quarter Notes and Bank Notes, 2004. Co-author: Mergers, Sell-Offs and Economic Efficiency, 1987.
Much of my professional career has been shaped by the early recognition, following Schumpeter, that technological change is by far the most potent contributor to improvements in economic well-being. My research has explored many facets of technological change, e.g. in rough chronological order, the impact of the patent system in large corporations, the economics of advanced weapons development, the links between market structure and innovative vigour, the nature and magnitude of scale economies, the structure of interindustry technology flows, and the productivity growth consequences of industrial research and development investments. Occasional digressions from this preoccupation have carried me to a broader array of industrial structure and behaviour questions, notably, in my treatise-textbook, Industrial Market Structure and Economic Performance, and in my most recent work on the behavioural consequences of mergers and spin-offs.
In this work, I have continued to place more than the conventional amount of emphasis on dynamic, and on a methodological approach combining close observation of real-world behaviour (e.g. through interviews and case studies) with theorybuilding and statistical analysis.
Member advisory panel National Science Foundation, Washington, 1980—1983, United States Office Technology Assessment, 1989—1993, United States Bureau of Census, 1997—2000. Member of Industrial Organization Society (president 1992), American Economic Association (vice president 1988), European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (co-member 1974).
Musicology, music.
Married Barbara A. Silbermann, August 17, 1957. Children: Thomas, Karen, Christina.