One of the defining features of modern social science and economics in particular is the hard break it posits between everyday and scientific knowledge. French philosophers have called this characteristic the epistemological break. One of the key consequences of this break is that scientists...

This paper analyzes the Ostrom Workshop as a site of interdisciplinary collective knowledge production. We provide an overview of the history of the Workshop and its most important outputs in terms of ideas, artifacts, and facilities for research. We argue that the unique contribution of the...

In this chapter, we present fragments of previously unpublished correspondence between Ludwig Lachmann and G. L. S. Shackle on the nature of institutions. This correspondence allows us to rationally reconstruct a theory of institutions, which extends Lachmann's theoretical work. Shackle pointed...

We suggest that we push our thinking about the production process from the perspective of a Lachmannian capital theory to consider those kinds of goods that are not typically thought of as capital goods, but perhaps should be. We have in mind intellectual infrastructures, which on our account...

This paper offers an alternative to existing economic theories of goods, which conceptualize goods as bundles of objective characteristics. We present two cases of Starbucks and Disraeli (1929 film) to show that relevant qualities of goods – along with costs and prices – emerge from the...

Spanish Abstract: Douglass North nunca tuvo miedo a cambiar de opinión. Y es precisamente la curiosidad inquisitiva que sobresale en la personalidad de North. Pero ¿por qué – el lector podría preguntar – deberíamos hablar de una tesis que no es controvertida? Me explico: la capacidad de...

This is an introduction to a forthcoming edited volume on Governing Markets as Knowledge Commons. We develop a theoretical framework for the analysis of the production, reproduction, and transformation of intellectual and legal infrastructures that enable market interactions using the Governing...