Williamsoniana

12 October 2009 at 12:44 pm Peter G. Klein 5 comments

| Peter Klein |

My, we live in a fast-paced world: the Nobel announcement is just a few hours old, and we’re already being taken to task for not blogging enough about Williamson. For the high-time-preference folks, please see previous posts on Williamson and transaction cost economics, and the preview chapters of the Elgar TCE Handbook, while we work on our usual careful, thoughtful, and well-researched blog posts.

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Ripped from the Headlines Wiliamson Linking with Guile

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1. Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson with the economics Nobel - The Curious Capitalist - TIME.com | 12 October 2009 at 3:57 pm

[…] as of Monday at 10:56 they'd managed only a paragraph. (Update within the update: Now there's a second paragraph, with links to some older posts on […]
2. srp | 12 October 2009 at 4:45 pm

Admit it–you’re spending your time on self-seeking behavior with guile.
3. David Gerard | 12 October 2009 at 6:06 pm

Perhaps they figured you had it pegged as an inevitability and had already written it all up, like news orgs do with obits.
4. Peter Klein | 12 October 2009 at 10:36 pm

Plus I’m boundedly rational! David, I used to think about doing that, but gave it up a few years back, thinking it was a fool’s errand. Oh well.
5. David G. Hoopes | 13 October 2009 at 1:19 pm

Asleep at the wheel. What Ollie won what? I thought my mailbox would be full of e-mail from his students. Guess not.