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Klein on Nobel Winner Oliver Williamson and Hayekian Economics
Organization economist Peter Klein on his thesis advisor Oliver Williamson. I found this section of particular interest: the black-box approach to the firm that [once] dominated neoclassical economics omits the critical organizational details of production. An equally serious omission is … Continue reading
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Oliver Williamson & Friedrich Hayek
Only a handful of Nobel Prize winners are as well read in the work of Friedrich Hayek as 2009 winner Oliver Williamson. Note for example the references to Hayek in Williamson’s The Economic Institutions of Capitalism. Williamson is particularly fond … Continue reading
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