Our Recent Books
Nicolai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein,
Organizing Entrepreneurial Judgment: A New Approach to the Firm (Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Peter G. Klein and Micheal E. Sykuta, eds.,
The Elgar Companion to Transaction Cost Economics (Edward Elgar, 2010).
Peter G. Klein,
The Capitalist and the Entrepreneur: Essays on Organizations and Markets (Mises Institute, 2010).
Richard N. Langlois,
The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism: Schumpeter, Chandler, and the New Economy (Routledge, 2007).
Nicolai J. Foss,
Strategy, Economic Organization, and the Knowledge Economy: The Coordination of Firms and Resources (Oxford University Press, 2005).
Raghu Garud, Arun Kumaraswamy, and Richard N. Langlois, eds.,
Managing in the Modular Age: Architectures, Networks and Organizations (Blackwell, 2003).
Nicolai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein, eds.,
Entrepreneurship and the Firm: Austrian Perspectives on Economic Organization (Elgar, 2002).
Nicolai J. Foss and Volker Mahnke, eds.,
Competence, Governance, and Entrepreneurship: Advances in Economic Strategy Research
(Oxford, 2000).
Nicolai J. Foss and Paul L. Robertson, eds.,
Resources, Technology, and Strategy: Explorations in the Resource-based Perspective (Routledge, 2000).
It’s that magical season, time to enjoy your favorite Christmas classics — not The Night Before Christmas or It’s a Wonderful Life, but “In Defense of Scrooge” and “Economics of Santa’s Workshop” by Michael Levin from the old Free Market newsletter. Steve Landsburg’s 2004 piece on Scrooge is not as penetrating as Levin’s, but who can disagree with his conclusion: “Its taxes, not misers, that need reforming.”
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Joe Mahoney | 25 December 2007 at 3:28 pm
I recommend this holiday season a thoughtful reading of Kenneth Arrow’s THE LIMITS OF ORGANIZATION, which quotes Rabbi Hillel:
If I am not for myself, then who is for me?
If I am not for others, then who am I?
If not now, when?
Arrow (1974) confronts the tension that most feel between the claims of individual self-fulfillment and the claims of social conscience and action.
Merry Christmas :-)
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Per Bylund | 27 December 2007 at 3:04 am
There is also a take on what happened to Scrooge after he “learned” his lesson in the Dickens classic. David Holmes has published his “continuing” story on Scrooge, A Capitalist Carol, available to read here (PDF) and to buy here.
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David Holmes | 29 December 2007 at 1:02 pm
The pdf link for ‘A Capitalist Carol’ is no longer available. It was a galley proof promo. The ‘Carol’ is available directly at http://www.thebookden.com/acapitalistcarol1.html Enjoy! David Holmes