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The economic nature of the firm : a reader / edited by Louis Putterman and Randall S. Kroszner.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.Description: x, 390 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0521470927 (hc)
  • 0521556287 (pbk.)
  • 9780521556286
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD30.22 .E25
Contents:
The economic nature of the firm : a new introduction / Louis Putterman and Randall S. Kroszner -- From The wealth of nations / Adam Smith -- From Capital / Karl Marx -- From risk, uncertainty and profit / Frank Knight -- The use of knowledge in society / Friedrich Hayek -- Relational exchange : economics and complex contracts / Victor Goldberg -- From The visible hand / Alfred Chandler -- The nature of the firm / Ronald Coase -- Vertical integration, appropriable rents, and the competitive contracting process / Benjamin Klein, Robert Crawford, and Armen Alchian -- The governance of contractual relations / Oliver Williamson -- The organization of industry / G.B. Richardson -- The limits of firms : incentive and bureaucratic features / Oliver Williamson -- Bargaining costs, influence costs, and the organization of economic activity / Paul Milgrom and John Roberts -- Towards an economic theory of the multiproduct firm / David Teece -- Production, information costs, and economic organization / Armen Alchian and Harold Demsetz -- Contested exchange : new microfoundations for the political economy of capitalism / Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis -- Understanding the employment relation : the analysis of idiosyncratic exchange / Oliver Williamson, Michael Wachter, and Jeffrey Harris -- Multitask principal-agent analyses : incentive contracts, asset ownership, and job design / Bengt Holmstrom and Paul Milgrom -- The prisoners' dilemma in the invisible hand : an analysis of intrafirm productivity / Harvey Leibenstein -- Labor contracts as partial gift exchange / George Akerlof -- Profit sharing and productivity / Martin Weitzman and Douglas Kruse -- Mergers and the market for corporate control / Henry Manne -- Agency problems and the theory of the firm / Eugene Fama -- Theory of the firm : managerial behavior, agency costs, and ownership structure / Michael Jensen and William Meckling -- Organizational forms and investment decisions / Eugene Fama and Michael Jensen -- The structure of ownership and the theory of the firm / Harold Demsetz -- An economist's perspective on the theory of the firm / Oliver Hart -- Ownership and the nature of the firm / Louis Putterman.
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Includes index.

The economic nature of the firm : a new introduction / Louis Putterman and Randall S. Kroszner --
From The wealth of nations / Adam Smith --
From Capital / Karl Marx --
From risk, uncertainty and profit / Frank Knight --
The use of knowledge in society / Friedrich Hayek --
Relational exchange : economics and complex contracts / Victor Goldberg --
From The visible hand / Alfred Chandler --
The nature of the firm / Ronald Coase --
Vertical integration, appropriable rents, and the competitive contracting process / Benjamin Klein, Robert Crawford, and Armen Alchian --
The governance of contractual relations / Oliver Williamson --
The organization of industry / G.B. Richardson --
The limits of firms : incentive and bureaucratic features / Oliver Williamson --
Bargaining costs, influence costs, and the organization of economic activity / Paul Milgrom and John Roberts --
Towards an economic theory of the multiproduct firm / David Teece --
Production, information costs, and economic organization / Armen Alchian and Harold Demsetz --
Contested exchange : new microfoundations for the political economy of capitalism / Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis --
Understanding the employment relation : the analysis of idiosyncratic exchange / Oliver Williamson, Michael Wachter, and Jeffrey Harris --
Multitask principal-agent analyses : incentive contracts, asset ownership, and job design / Bengt Holmstrom and Paul Milgrom --
The prisoners' dilemma in the invisible hand : an analysis of intrafirm productivity / Harvey Leibenstein --
Labor contracts as partial gift exchange / George Akerlof --
Profit sharing and productivity / Martin Weitzman and Douglas Kruse --
Mergers and the market for corporate control / Henry Manne --
Agency problems and the theory of the firm / Eugene Fama --
Theory of the firm : managerial behavior, agency costs, and ownership structure / Michael Jensen and William Meckling --
Organizational forms and investment decisions / Eugene Fama and Michael Jensen --
The structure of ownership and the theory of the firm / Harold Demsetz --
An economist's perspective on the theory of the firm / Oliver Hart --
Ownership and the nature of the firm / Louis Putterman.

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