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From: david landes
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 11:29 PM
Subject: Fwd: question for PENL, LBO etc
A query from Doug Orr.
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>Please respond to dorr at ewu.edu, not to the list.
>Thanks,
>Doug Orr
>
> In Heilbroner's old principles book he had a great chapter on "the real
>world," which came before any discussion of theory. I still structure
>my courses that way. One piece that I got from the last edition of that
>book is hopelessly out of date, but I still use it because it is so
>effective.
>
> Lots of books have the breakdown of businesses into proprietorships,
>partnerships, and corps and give numbers of firms and size of sales, and
>then note that corps dominate sales. What Heilbroner did was to focus
>on the control of decision making by focusing on the ownership of assets
>by type of business and demonstrated that in 1982 3600 corps with assets
>over $250 million owned 80% of all tangeble assets in the US economy.
>3600 out of 19.5 M firms means that 0.02% of firms own and control 80%
>of the economy. This makes students take notice.
>
> So my question is: where do I go to get data to update these numbers?
>I have found numbers of businesses and sales by type from the IRS in the
>Stat Abstract 99. I have been able to find Total Assets for partnerships,
>also from the IRS in Stat AB, but I assume this includes tangible and
>financial assets. For corportations, I can get both tangible and financial
>assets broken out. I have found nothing on asset holdings of any type
>for proprietors.
>
> Obviously, I need to go beyond the Stat Ab., but knowing where to start
>would be a great help. So any thoughts you have would be great.
>
>Thanks for any help you can give.
>
>Doug Orr
>
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