Sectors Matter!

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Editorial: Why Should Sectors Matter?

   • Stefan Mann

   Pages 1-4

3. Sectors Matter for Society

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. On the Reality Behind Money

      • Erik Händeler

      Pages 7-40

   3. Merit Sectors

      • Stefan Mann

      Pages 41-51

4. Sectors Matter for Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53

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   2. Economic Growth Through the Emergence of New Sectors

      • Andreas Pyka, Pier Paolo Saviotti

      Pages 55-101

   3. Mesoeconomics: Bridging Micro and Macro in a Schumpeterian Key

      • Kurt Dopfer

      Pages 103-114

   4. Coordination on “Meso”-Levels: On the Co-evolution of Institutions, Networks and Platform Size

      • Wolfram Elsner, Torsten Heinrich

      Pages 115-163

5. Sectors Matter in Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165

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6. Sectors matter in practice

   1. Changes in Industrial Structure and Economic Growth: Postwar Japanese Experiences

      • Hiroshi Yoshikawa, Shuko Miyakawa

      Pages 167-218

   2. The Mesoeconomics of Social Industries

      • Benoit Pierre Freyens

      Pages 219-238

   3. Governmental Discrimination Between Sectors: The Case of Australian Water Policy

      • Lin Crase, Sue O’Keefe

      Pages 239-249

7. Back Matter

   Pages 251-252

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Although all economic activities take place in sectors, economists often devote little attention to differences between and characteristics of sectors. This book tries to show that mesoeconomics, the economic exploration of sectors and groups, is a useful instrument of analysis between microeconomics (the analysis of markets) and macroeconomics (the analysis of economies). In order to do so, economists and social scientists from related disciplines and coming from Europe, Australia and Asia, demonstrate that sectors matter for economic development and the formation of societies. The book includes chapters with rigorous economic analysis, outlooks on economic history, and case studies in order to show the relevance of sectoral issues, this broad range of content making it likely the most comprehensive book on mesoeconomics to date.

• Heterodox Economics
• Structural Change

• , Socioeconomics, Agroscope, Ettenhausen, Switzerland

  Stefan Mann

Stefan Mann heads the Socioeconomics research group of the Swiss Federal Research Station Agroscope. He holds one PhD in Agriculture and one in Economics.

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