The economic nature of the firm : a reader
"The Economic Nature of the Firm brings together classic writings on the economic nature and organization of firms, including works by Ronald Coase, Armen Alchian and Harold Demsetz, Michael Jensen and William Meckling, George Akerlof, and Oliver Williamson, as well as more recent contributions by Paul Milgrom and John Roberts, Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Bengt Holmstrom, and Oliver Hart. Part I explores the general theme of the firm's economic nature and its place in the market system: Part II covers the scope of the firm; Part III examines internal organization and the human factor; and Part IV ties the firm's organization and behavior to issues of financing and ownership."--BOOK JACKET. "This volume also includes a consolidated bibliography of sources cited by these authors and an introductory essay by the editors that surveys the new institutional economics of the firm and issues raised in the anthology. The collection aims to introduce this core literature to advanced undergraduates, business and economics graduate students, and scholars in allied disciplines, including law, sociology, and organization and management."--Jacket
x, 390 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780521470926, 9780521556286, 0521470927, 0521556287
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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