The Nature of the firm
Subtitle: origins, evolution, and development
By: edited by Oliver E. Williamson, Sidney G. Winter.
Contributors: Williamson, Oliver E.; Winter, Sidney G.; Coase, R. H.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Industrial organization (Economic theory)
Description: "R.H. Coase in his 1991 Nobel Prize Lecture--included in this paperback edition--held that the importance of his 1937 article, "The Nature of the Firm," was "the explicit introduction of transaction costs into economic analysis," and described the future challenge to social scientists as the relentless "study of the world of positive transaction costs." This book develops that central emphasis and unifying theme from the Coasian research agenda. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes a reprint of Ronald H. Coase's article, The nature of the firm, first published in 1937, and the proceedings of a 1987 conference organized to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the article.