1. What we know and what we don't know about the firm -- 2. The extent of the market process -- 3. The 'specialisation deadlock' -- 4. Entrepreneurship and integration -- 5. Authority and hierarchy -- 6. The volatile character of the firm -- 7. Financing, ownership, and boundaries of the firm --...

We develop a tractable framework for the analysis of the relationship between contractual incompleteness, technological complementarities, and technology adoption. In our model a firm chooses its technology and investment levels in contractible activities by suppliers of intermediate inputs....

Because of their more limited inequality and more comprehensive social welfare systems, many perceive average welfare to be higher in Scandinavian societies than in the United States. Why then does the United States not adopt Scandinavian-style institutions? More generally, in an interdependent...