29 January 2008 at 12:51 pm Peter G. Klein 6 comments
| Peter Klein |
Elgar’s 2008 Law catalog has a terrific image on the cover. What better way to capture the essence of lawyering, at least transactional lawyering?
Here’s a fun game: If you were to design covers for the Economics, Management, Sociology, or Political Science catalogs, what would they look like?
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).
Organizations and Markets 
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brayden | 29 January 2008 at 1:19 pm
Sociology would have a picture of a stick figure person sitting in a room all alone.
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Gary Peters | 29 January 2008 at 4:50 pm
Accounting would have a picture of a figure person sitting on a stick (pointy end up) in a room all alone.
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Joe Mahoney | 29 January 2008 at 6:31 pm
How about a picture of a figure person sitting on a stick (pointy end up) in a room alone with lots of empty chairs? Gosh, this is fun !
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spostrel | 29 January 2008 at 8:11 pm
For econ, a stick figure being crushed between a production-possibiltiy frontier and an indifference curve as the two try to reach tangency Or a guy crucified on a Marshallian cross. (Just following the established theme.)
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Warren Miller | 31 January 2008 at 11:21 am
Gary, as a recovering bean-counter (CPA, CMA), I resemble that characterization. :-) It’s called something on a stick, I believe.
Seriously, accounting would have a picture of an unbalanced figure person sitting in a room with green eyeshades, garters on the sleeves, a pocket-protector, an abacus, and a totally baffled look on the person’s face.
Marketing would have a picture of a figure person sitting in a room with a shirt populated with bright bells and whistles and carrying a placard that says, “2 + 2 = 5, and we can take that to market tomorrow!”
IT would have a picture of a figure person sitting in a room in a cage full of pizza and a sign that says, “Feed the animals.”
HR would have a picture of a figure person sitting in a padded room reading a book entitled “Essential Process: Equal Opportunity Means Equal Results,” surrounded by walls with government mandates plastered on them.
Manufacturing would have a picture of a figure person sitting alone on a shop floor reading “The Goal.”
Receiving would have a picture of a figure person sitting alone in a room cluttered with boxes, cartons, crates, tape, box cutters, a UPS terminal, and a big sign that says, “Ship happens.”
More??
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Gary Peters | 31 January 2008 at 2:19 pm
Warren, hysterical! Peter, this is all your fault!