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 --...

This research monograph provides systematic and comprehensive materials for applying inframarginal analysis to study a wide range of economic phenomena. The analysis is based on a new overarching framework to resurrect the classical notion of division of labor and specialization, which is an...

For many years, the ideas of Knight and Keynes have been widely understood to overlap greatly and they are presumed to have developed notions of uncertainty that deeply intersect, both describing a state where outcomes have non-probabilistic likelihoods. Further, even their political...

It has become commonplace in management research to refer to “transaction cost theory,” a joint Coase-Williamson approach to economic organizing. This off-the-cuff usage overlooks their differences by treating Coase as a pre-Williamsonian. I argue that their theoretical frameworks are...