TECHNIQUES OF TRANSPORT PLANNING by John R. Meyer,Editor

This case study is an evaluation of actual alternatives for capacity expansion of an electrical power company. A systematic analysis of the important parameters of this complex problem is described to illustrate how multiple attribute decision analysis can be utilized to include the monetary and nonmonetary aspects of such a real world capacity expansion problem. The service cost data utilized is the type generated routinely by utilities and/or regulatory staffs. However, the use of outage costs and socio-economic coats demonstrates that the readily available service coats data can be expanded and combined into a framework that allows a more detailed analysis of the complex, capacity planning problem. The information reported here has been altered to the extent necessary to conceal the identity of the utility.     

Technology and Market Structure. Theory and History. John Sutton.

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Lean Product and Process Development by Allen C. Ward

Books reviewed in this issue:

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  Lean Product and Process Development
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  Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape
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  Putting Hope to Work: Five Principles to Activate Your Organization's Most Powerful Resource
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  Catalyst Code: The Strategies behind the World's Most Dynamic Companies
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  Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries

     

The Economics of Football,Stephen Dobson and John Goddard.

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欧洲商界的声音

亚历山德罗·彼得赛欧洲纺织零售商协会秘书长 <中欧纺织品备忘录>签署之后,他所在的欧洲纺织零售商会专门召开了会议进行了深入研究,并邀请欧盟纺织品谈判代表菲尔南多进行了座谈.表明始终坚持崇尚自由贸易的立场,但考虑配额取消后形式的复杂性,也算是理解了欧盟对华纺织品设限的原因,但仍然持反对设限的态度.现在中欧双边协定达成了,作为零售商组织,面临着最具体的问题就是对中国所下的订单如果供货商拿不到配额或者配额不够,该怎么办?这样,就很难对中国在商务上做出计划,交货期更难保证,这不仅仅是政治上的问题,更是非常具体而又紧急的困难.他们期望欧盟对生产商与进口商、零售商同样关注.     

The extent of single firm dominance in U.S. manufacturing industries: Reply

Myupper bound leading firm share estimates are not affected by Daskin's criticisms. In particular, my central conclusion that dominant firms are rare in U.S. manufacturing industries is unchanged. However, his criticisms of mylower bound estimates are generally correct; better ways can be found to compute these. In addition, I made a computational error which prevented him from replicating my previously reported lower bound results. Fortunately, the results are relatively insensitive to the computational algorithm. As demonstrated above, there is little quantitative impact and less qualitative impact.⁵ His assertion that his criticisms raiseserious questions about validity of my empirical work is incorrect.     

Senator John Sherman Meets Professor John Rawls: A Fortuitous Encounter for Justice

Review of Industrial Organization - If John Sherman, the United States Senator from Ohio, could meet John Rawls, the Harvard philosophy professor, neither could resist comparing views and notes...     

PRINCIPLES OF- ENGINEERING ECONOMIC ANALYSIS by John A. White,Marvin H. Agee and Kenneth E. Case,John Wiley & Sons,Inc., New York, 1984, 2nd Ed., xii + 546 pp., List $32.95.

In his three recent papers [3], [4], and [5], R.G. Beaves develops an Overall Rate of Return (ORR) project evaluation criterion based on the concept of the so-called transition point (TP) which he has defined in two different versions.¹ In the present contribution, it is shown that some projects may produce undefined ORRs for either TP version, and that other ORR-like criteria [7] may also generate undefined results for projects for which the Net Present Value (NPV) criterion is defined. To eliminate the cases of the ORR undefinability, a generalization of the ORR criterion is proposed that makes this criterion fully NPV compatible and applicable to both investment and financing projects. This criterion embraces all the existing ORR approaches that are based on the notions of the initial and terminal wealths, including both of Beaves' approaches.