[lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 3, Issue 36

John Mage jmage at panix.com
Wed Mar 3 17:06:44 PST 2004


Doug responded:

>> Just eyeballing it from a couple of recent world almanacs and one

>> older one:

>

> According to Pankaj Ghemawat and Fariborz Ghadar's study of 40

> industries ("The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers," Harvard

> Business Review, July-August 2000), there's been no trend towards

> increased concentration in the post-WW II period.

We've been over this here some years ago - my memory is that they excluded trade, finance, services etc etc AND that their methodology was inaccessible. Surely there's some accessible semi-official measure of concentration by sector, rather than this strange piece by BSchool types?

john mage



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