Anti-Dismal

In the modern, Coaseian-inspired view of the neoclassical model, there are no firms. Harold Demsetz sums up the Coasian view of the neoclass...

We will examine the opportunities that were taken and those that were missed in the development of the mainstream economic theory of the fir...

Depending on how you pick your starting point there has been, roughly, 50 or 100 years of the mainstream economic theory of the firm. In sup...

 J. B. Condliffe has pointed out that  "[ ... ] economic activity and thoughts about it are as old a mankind'' (Condliffe 1974:...

Or, (almost) everything you wanted to know about the history of the theory of production/the firm: but were afraid (too bored) to ask This p...

One important, and at times controversial, assumption used in most theories of the firm, including that of Coase, but not discussed by Coase...

The Theory of the Firm: An ... by Paul Walker

(Almost) Everything You Wanted To Know About The History of The Theory of Production/the Firm: But Were Afr... by Paul Walker on Scribd

(Almost) Everything You Wanted to Know About the History of the Theory of Production/the Firm: But Were Afr... by Paul Walker on Scribd

 

 

An interesting detail. Spulber (2008: 5, footnote 8) gives the origin of the word 'firm' as "[t]he word "firm" derive...

One assumption not discussed much in the mainstream theory of the firm is that of profit maximisation. Most theories of the firm take it as ...

My latest book is finally published!! The publisher's page for the book is here. Foundations of Organisational Economics: Histories an...