Problem Based Learning

Business Survival - References for Investigation

Biz/ed has provided the following references for investigation to help you research the problem. These are suggestions only and are not the only sources you may wish to use; indeed, you are not obliged to use any of them!

Web sites

• Q&A: Microsoft's EU court battle - from BBC News. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4938610.stm)
• European Commission and Microsoft: Hearing Before Court of First Instance - from Microsoft. (http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/EUCFIHearing/default.mspx)
• Antitrust cases by event date - search page on the EU Competition site. (http://europa.eu.int/comm/competition/antitrust/cases/index/by_event_recent.html)
• Microsoft points to 'serious errors' in EU ruling -from the Guardian. (http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1760355,00.html)
• Microsoft, EU face off over antitrust - from Business Week. (http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/apr2006/gb20060424_729316.htm?chan=search)
• The UK Competition Commission. (http://www.competition-commission.org.uk/)
• Misleading Calculations of the Social Cost of Monopoly Power - article by S.C. Littlechild (a more challenging piece but still useful). (http://www.jstor.org/view/00130133/di983462/98p0516w/0 )
• Monopoly - article by Nobel Prize-winning author George J. Stigler. (http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Monopoly.html)
• Monopoly - from wikipedia.com. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly)
• Overview: Efficiency and Monopoly - series of pages from Cyber Economics. (http://www.ingrimayne.com/econ/Monopoly/Overview15mi.html)
• Consumer and producer surplus - Biz/ed presentation
• Biz/ed presentations on Market Structure:
  • Market Structures
  • Pricing Strategies and Contestable Markets
  • Market Structure

Textbooks:

• Wilkinson, M. (1993) Equity and Efficiency. Studies in the UK Economy, Chapter 4. Oxford, Heinemann
• Hirshleifer, J. and Glazer, A. (1992) Price theory and applications (Fifth Edition) pp219-227. New Jersey, Simon & Schuster.
• Mankiw, G.N. and Taylor, M.P. (2006) Economics. London, Thomson Learning
• Anderton, A. (2000) Economics (Third Edition) Ormskirk, Lancashire, Causeway Press.
• Parkin, M. Powell, M. Matthews, K.(1997) Economics (Third Edition). Harlow, Addison Wesley Longman
• Sloman, J. (2002) Economics. London, FT Prentice Hall