O artigo apresenta os fundamentos teóricos da Economia dos Custos de Transação e faz um sumário das críticas feitas à mesma, apontando para uma agenda de pesquisa pluralista.

Inertia in academia sometimes obstructs the development of important insights. That is one reason for the specially long gap separating Coase's seminal paper [1937] that laid the foundations of current Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) and the efforts of scholars to develop his ideas. But as TCE...