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).
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Cliff Grammich | 11 November 2009 at 6:31 pm
Isn’t there some similar evidence regarding boxing gloves, that is, that boxing without gloves is less likely to lead to brain injury (if possibly more broken hands) than boxing with them?
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Peter Klein | 11 November 2009 at 6:32 pm
Indeed, yes, I should have mentioned that.
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Cliff Grammich | 11 November 2009 at 10:42 pm
I also recall research (summarized at http://bit.ly/b8Wtn) that motorists give less room to bicyclists wearing helmets–bicyclists who may therefore be in more danger than bicyclists without helmets. (Nevertheless, the missus still insists I wear one, apparently unconvinced by the research or even the thickness of my skull.)
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Gynnas fotgängarna av ny airbag? « Nonicoclolasos | 16 November 2009 at 11:40 pm
[…] Se även Peter Kleins inlägg ”Incentives Matter, Football Helmet Edition”. […]
5. Back to Some Economic Basics: Football vs. Rugby | Austrian Economics Blog | 18 November 2009 at 1:30 pm
[…] Peter Klein now reports the incentives do indeed matter in all walks of life and football is no exception. He doesn't discuss the comparison, so I think an energetic and enterprising graduate student can pursue the football v rugby study if they wanted. Follow the links Peter provides for some other entertaining examples. […]