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050			_aHD 2791 .S34 1970
100			_aScherer, F. M. _eauthor
245		4	_aThe Alchemist / _cF. M. Scherer
260			_aChicago : _bRand McNally, _cc1970
300			_axi, 576 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
520			_aThis book explores systematically the field of economics known as industrial organization. The name is a curious one, distinctive mainly in its inability to communicate to outsiders what the subject is all about. It has little or nothing to say about how one organizes and directs a particular industrial enterprise, although there are industrial organization courses in business and engineering schools which deal with such matters. Rather, the field is concerned with how productive activities are brought into harmony with society's demands for goods and services through some organizing mechanism such as a free market, and how variations and imperfections in the organizing mechanism affect the degree of success achieved by producers in satisfying society's wants.
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