This paper takes up Coase's views on the Chicago school, as found in his published and, especially, unpublished writings, beginning already in the early 1960s, prior to his appointment at Chicago. These commentaries at once demonstrate a measure of kinship and significant differences of...

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The governance and transaction cost insights of Oliver Williamson (1975, 1985, 1996, 2010) and Ronald Coase (1937, 1992) have framed antitrust polices and firm management strategies. Transaction cost economics explain efficient governance adaptation. With a focus on private efficiency gains...

Der Verlauf der Reformen in der Volksrepublik China und die Folgen des wirtschaftlichen Wandels werden in diesem Buch detailliert nachgezeichnet. Dabei kommen die Autoren zu einer skeptischen Einschätzung der Zukunftsaussichten des gegenwärtigen Entwicklungsmodells umfassender staatlicher...