Firms, Industries, Markets: The Unavoidable Issues for Scientific Research
摘要
The terms firm, industry, and market are not associable with uniquely determinable entities. The complexity in Economics and, in particular, in micro, meso, and macro relationships is caused by the presence of multiple forms of the studied objects, by the indeterminacy of results, by the instability of structures, and, at the same time, by the birth of epistemological standards that invite the use of new perspectives to read the company world and the aggregates close to it. In relation to the topic of micro, meso, and macro relationships in the Economics of Complexity, we focus on four themes of scientific research, which are connected to each other, yet with autonomous insights concerning both content and methodology: