Winners, Losers & Microsoft: Competition and Antitrust in High Technology

摘要: From the Book: In what for many readers will be most exciting portion of book, authors go on to examine histories alleged market failures, starting with QWERTY. Were producers and consumers actually locked into inferior solutions? And if not, devices were employed escape supposed trap? I say no more this topic here, so as not take edge off authors' accounts creativity ingenuity displayed by both suppliers in competitive battle critical mass. ....The fascinating history analysis Winners, Losers Microsoft can guide us toward a better understanding newer forms competition that have been mainly responsible success modern American economy recent decades. — Jack Hirshleifer, Professor Economics; University California, Los Angeles