The revival of interest in Keynesian economics since the late 1980s reinstates the importance of Keynes's contribution to economic theory and policy. This is the second of two volumes in which authoritative contributions are presented by an outstanding group of international experts to celebrate...

This paper reports on an ESRC-funded project investigating 'the management of cooperative strategies', testing hypotheses drawn largely from (transaction cost) economics using data derived from the investigative methods of social anthropology. Cooperative strategies in a sample of British and...

This paper discusses various explanations of how transaction cost-minimizing corporate configurations come about. It contrasts Darwinian with rational explanations, finding both unsatisfactory. What matters, rather than computation of fully recognized transaction costs, are managerial...