The a reader Putterman, Louis G. Kroszner, Randy. text Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press 1996 monographic x, 390 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. 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. edited by Louis Putterman and Randall S. Kroszner. Includes index. Managerial economics Business enterprises Industrial organization Microeconomics HD30.22 .E25 0521470927 (hc) 0521556287 (pbk.) 9780521556286