Books by Mark (Professor of Economics Casson

Mark Casson, a respected economist, sets out in a rigorous but accessible way, the theory that the culture in which a firm operates has a profound effect on its productivity. One of the topics covered by this book - the role of leadership and manipulation of performance in business culture - is very important and has been largely neglected until now.

This is the first history of the British railway system written from a modern economic perspective. It uses conterfactual analysis to construct an alternative network to represent the most efficient alternative rail network that could have been constructed given what was known at the time - the first time this has been done.

An examination of the system of linkages that determine the success of multinational firms and the resulting performance of nations.

"Information and Organization" models the economy in terms of the flow of information rather than material goods. Instead of the adversarial exploitation of information gaps, it stresses the creative use of information in decision making and co-ordinating the use of resources.