21 December 2009 at 2:45 pm Peter G. Klein 8 comments
| Peter Klein |
From a stunningly awful slide show (both substantively and aesthetically) on US Afghanistan policy (via Chris Coyne).
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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Mauro Mello Jr. | 21 December 2009 at 5:47 pm
These lines show Hayek turning in his grave…
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gabrielrossman | 21 December 2009 at 5:53 pm
maybe i took hayek too seriously, but when i see a diagram of a complex system that insanely complicated, my immediate gut reaction is to think policy intervention is futile. perhaps this is really the esoteric text of the powerpoint, a discrete cry for help from a joint chiefs that has remembered it would really prefer not to do windows but doesn’t want to undermine civilian control of the military by saying so openly.
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Peter Klein | 21 December 2009 at 5:54 pm
Gabriel, that is the best comment I’ve seen all day.
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David Hoopes | 21 December 2009 at 9:42 pm
Looks like something from an early version of my first dissertation proposal. I ended up spending the next 20 years on one arrow.
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SkepticProf | 22 December 2009 at 11:40 am
It’s nice to see that they have the theory all clearly mapped. Now they can create hypotheses like “Population conditions & beliefs matter” and “ANSF Tactical affects Popular support.”
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K Trout | 23 December 2009 at 3:51 pm
authored by CONSULTANTS who clearly support U.S.-sanctioned
gas pipelines
Enjoy.
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