Economic approaches to organizations and institutions : an introduction / edited by Pål Foss.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Dartmouth, ©1995.
Description
xlv, 284 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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    Subject(s)
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction : on the economics of institutions and organizations / Pål Foss
    • The domain of constitutional economics / James M. Buchanan
    • Transaction cost economics / Trond Petersen
    • Economic perspectives on property rights and the economics of institutions / Thráinn Eggertsson
    • A public choice and social choice perspective / Charles K. Rowley
    • On game theory and how to use it for understanding the functioning of organizations / Christian Riis and Jon Vislie
    • Organizational structure and the emergence of informal norms / James Coleman
    • The firm as nexus of internal and external contracts / Torger Reve
    • Governments, firms, and the impossibility of central planning / Jerry Ellig and Don Lavoie
    • The principle-agent relationship in organizations / Trond Petersen
    • On the relevance of neo-institutionalism to the public sector / Jan-Erik Lane and Torgier Nyen
    • The collective action problem and some of its solutions / Jon Hovi and Pål Foss
    • Liberties, rights, and the standing of groups / Anthony de Jasay.
    ISBN
    • 1855216671
    • 9781855216679
    LCCN
    94046887
    OCLC
    31739179
    Other standard number
    • ZBWT00582695
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