Factors in Industrial Integration

Abstract

The apparent conflict of opinion among present writers. — I. The difficulties in the statistical measurement of integration, 622. — Recent American experience, 623. — II. The economies of integration under stable and competitive conditions, 624. — The incompatibility of technical balance and commercial self-sufficiency, 626. — III. Integration in relation to monopoly and dynamic conditions, 629. — The offensive and defensive aspects of integration, 632. — The vertical concern in periods of depression and periods of prosperity, 633. — The vertical firm and technical changes, 635. — IV. Conclusion: Conflicting views more apparent than real, 637.