Elgar Companion
Peter G. Klein and Michael E. Sykuta, eds., The Elgar Companion to Transaction Cost Economics (Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar, 2010).
This book is in production with an expected publication date in mid-2010.
Tentative Table of Contents and Sample Draft Chapters
Introduction
- Editors’ introduction, by Peter G. Klein and Michael E. Sykuta
- Transaction cost economics: an overview, by Oliver E. Williamson
- Transaction cost economics and the new institutional economics, by Peter G. Klein
Precursors and influences
- Ronald H. Coase, by Michael E. Sykuta
- Cyert, March, and the Carnegie school, by Mie Augier
- Chester Barnard, by Joseph T. Mahoney
- Commons, Hurst, Macneil, and the Wisconsin legal tradition, by D. Gordon Smith
- F. A. Hayek, by Peter G. Klein
- Herbert Simon, by Saras Sarasvathy
- The property-rights approach, by Nicolai J. Foss
Fundamental concepts
- Transaction costs, by Lee Benham and Alexandra Behnam
- Asset specificity and holdups, by Benjamin Klein
- The transaction as the unit of analysis, by Nicholas Argyres
- Bounded rationality and organisational economics, by Nicolai J. Foss
- Economising and strategizing, by Jackson Nickerson and James Yen
- Research methods in transaction cost economics, by Michael E. Sykuta
Applications
- Vertical integration, by Peter G. Klein
- Hybrid organisations, by Claude Ménard
- Franchising, by Steven C. Michael
- The structure of franchise contracts, by Emmanuel Raynaud
- Cooperative organization and collective action, by Michael L. Cook
- Strategy and transaction costs, by Laura Poppo
- Labor-market contracting, by Bruce Rayton
- Antitrust and merger policy, by Joshua D. Wright
- Financial-market contracting, by Dean R. Williamson
Alternatives and critiques
- Critiques of transaction cost economics: an overview, Nicolai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein
- Transaction costs and subjectivism, by Fu-Lai Tony Yu
- Austrian economics and the transaction-cost approach to the firm, by Nicolai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein
- Limits of transaction cost economics, by Geoffrey Hodgson
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1. The Elgar Companion to Transaction Cost Economics « Rationalité Limitée | 1 October 2009 at 12:58 am
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