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Title The Economic nature of the firm : a reader / edited by Louis Putterman with the assistance of Randy Kroszner
Published Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986

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Description x, 371 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Division of labor--Wealth of nations--Capital--Risk, uncertainty, and profit--Knowledge in society--Relational exchange: economics and complex contracts--Employment relation, the human factor, and internal organization--Employment relationship--Production, information costs, and economic organization--Idiosyncratic exchange--Individual mobility and union voice in the labor market--Allocative efficiency and X-efficiency--Prisoners' dilemma: analysis of intrafirm productivity--
Management, finance, and the scope of the firm--Managerial behavior, agency costs, and ownership structure--Vertical integration, appropriable rents, and the competitive contracting process--Hierarchy in capitalist production--Contested terrain--Capital hires labor--Production process in a competitive economy: Walrasian, Hobbesian, and Marxian models
Analysis @ Division of labor % Wealth of nations % Capital % Risk, uncertainty, and profit % Knowledge in society % Relational exchange: economics and complex contracts @ Employment relation, the human factor, and internal organization % Employment relationship % Production, information costs, and economic organization % Idiosyncratic exchange % Individual mobility and union voice in the labor market % Allocative efficiency and X-efficiency % Prisoners' dilemma: analysis of intrafirm productivity @ Management, finance, and the scope of the firm % Managerial behavior, agency costs, and ownership structure % Vertical integration, appropriable rents, and the competitive contracting process @ Hierarchy in capitalist production @ Contested terrain @ Capital hires labor @ Production process in a competitive economy: Walrasian, Hobbesian, and Marxian models
Microeconomics - For business management
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 356-371
Subject Managerial economics.
Author Kroszner, Randy.
Putterman, Louis G.
LC no. 86017111
ISBN 0521311403 (paperback)
0521322782