This volume honors the work of the late Josef Steindl (1912-1993). and concludes with a posthumous contribution by Steindl himself--Half t.p.

chapter Introduction / DAVID P.LEVINE -- part PART I Concentration and development -- chapter 1 Reproduction and transformation in the theory of the market: observations on Josef Steindl's theory of capitalist dynamics -- chapter 2 Steindl's analysis of firm growth and the tendency toward industry concentration -- chapter 3 An application of Steindl's theory of concentration to the US meat packing industry, 1865-1988 -- part PART II Distribution and growth -- chapter 4 Steindl's theory of maturity and stagnation and its relevance today -- chapter 5 On industry concentration and the transition to monopoly capitalism: a knife-edge model of Steindlian dynamics -- chapter 6 Steindl on growth and cycles -- part PART III Maturity and stagnation -- chapter 7 Methodology and industrial maturity in Steindl's capitalism -- chapter 8 Market-limited growth and twentieth-century economic history: rethinking economic stagnation in the American case -- chapter 9 Monopoly capitalism and stagnation -- chapter 10 Trend and cycle.