The Economic Nature of the Firm - A Reader

Editor's preface ix
The economic nature of the firm: overview page 1
LOUIS PUTTERMAN
Part I. Within and among firms: the division of labor
1 . From The Wealth of Nations 33
ADAM SMITH
2. From Capital 44
KARL MARX
3 . From Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit 6 1
FRANK KNIGHT
4. The use of knowledge in society 66
FRIEDRICH HAYEK
5 . The nature of the firm 72
RONALD COASE
6. Relational exchange: economics and complex contracts 86
VICTOR GOLDBERG
7 . From The Visible Hand 92
ALFRED CHANDLER
Part n. The employment relation, the human factor, and
internal organization
8 . A formal theory of the employment relationship 1 03
HERBERT SIMON
9 . Production , information costs , and economic organization 1 1 1
ARMEN ALCHIAN and HAROLD DEMSETZ
10. Understanding the employment relation: the analysis of idiosyncratic
exchange 1 35
OLIVER WILLIAMSO N , MICHAEL WACHTER , and JEFFREY HARRIS
1 1 . Individual mobility and union voice in the labor market 1 56
RICHARD FREEMAN

12. Allocative efficiency and X-efficiency 1 65
HARVEY LEIBENSTEIN
1 3 . The prisoners ' dilemma in the invisible hand: an analysis of intrafirm
productivity 1 70
HARVEY LEIBENSTEIN
1 4. From An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change 1 79
RICHARD NELSON and SIDNEY WINTER
Part III. Management, finance, and the scope of the firm
1 5 . Mergers and the market for corporate control 193
HENRY MANNE
1 6 . Agency problems and the theory of the firm 1 96
EUGENE FAMA
1 7 . Theory of the firm: managerial behavior, agency costs , and
ownership structure 209
MICHAEL JENSEN and WILLIAM MECKLING
1 8 . Vertical integration , appropriable rents , and the competitive contracting
process 230
BENJAMIN KLEI N , ROBERT CRAWFORD , and ARMEN ALCHIAN
1 9 . Towards an economic theory of the multiproduct firm 250
DAVID TEECE
Part IV. Efficiency or control? Radical perspectives and
commentaries
20 . What do bosses do? The origins and functions of hierarchy in capitalist
production 269
STEPHEN MARGLIN
2 1 . From Contested Terrain 279
RICHARD EDWARDS
22. The organization of work: a comparative institutional assessment 292
OLIVER WILLIAMSON
23 . On some recent explanations of why capital hires labor 3 1 2
LOUIS PUTTERMAN
24 . The production process in a competitive economy: Walrasian, neo-
Hobbesian , and Marxian models 329
SAMUEL BOWLES

 

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