The Economic Institutions of Capitalism - Softcover

Williamson, Oliver E.

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9780029348215: The Economic Institutions of Capitalism

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ISBN 10: 0029348218 ISBN 13: 9780029348215

Publisher: The Free Press, 1987

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This sequel to "Markets and Hierarchies" develops and extends Williamson's innovative use of transaction cost economics as an approach to studying economic organization by applying it to work and labour as well as to the corporation itself. In addition, Williamson explores its growing implications for public policy, including its potential influence on antitrust and merger guidelines, labour policy, and SEC and public utility regulations.

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Paul L. Joskow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology An extraordinarily impressive achievement and must reading for all serious students of law, economics, and organization..."The Economic Institutions of Capitalism" synthesizes Oliver Williamson's extensive work on these subjects with related work of other scholars in a comprehensive and stimulating presentation of the theory and applications of a new institutional economics that is changing the way we think about many issues in law, economics, and organization.

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Oliver E. Williamson, the author of several books including the acclaimed Markets and Hierarchies (published by the Free Press), is Gordon B. Tweedy Professor of Economics of Law and Organization at Yale University. He is Fellow of the Econometrics Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Co-editor of the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization.

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