Armen Alchian has helped found several schools of economic thought and is the founder of the UCLA tradition in economics and one of the most influential voices in the areas of market structure, property rights, and the theory of the firm.
Author(s): Armen A. Alchian
Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc.
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 775
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Contents
Introduction
Of Golf, Capitalism and Socialism
PART 1 THE ECONOMIC THEORY OF PROPERTY RIGHTS
Some Economics of Property
Some Economics of Property Rights
Pricing and Society
The Property Rights Paradigm
Property Rights [1987]
Property Rights [1993]
The Bishops and the Lay Commission: Comments on Two Letters
Some Implications of Recognition of Property Right Transactions Costs
The Beneficiaries of Cleaner Air
PART 2 THE THEORY OF THE FIRM
Production, Information Costs, and Economic Organization
Vertical Integration, Appropriable Rents, and the Competitive Contracting Process
First Negotiation, First Refusal Rights
Decision Sharing and Expropriable Specific Quasi-Rents: A Theory of First National Maintenance Corporation v. NLRB
Amicus Curiae: Monsanto Company vs. Spray-Rite Corporation
Reminiscences of Errors: A Tribute in Honor of Dean William H. Meckling on His Retirement
Specificity, Specialization, and Coalitions
Reflections on the Theory of the Firm
Concluding Remarks
The Firm Is Dead; Long Live the Firm: A Review of Oliver Williamson's The Economic Institutions of Capitalism
Development of Economic Theory and Antitrust: A View from the Theory of the Firm
Thoughts on the Theory of the Firm: A Tribute to Eirik G. Furubotn
Vertical Integration and Regulation in the Telephone Industry
Baldarelli vs. H&R Block
PART 3 THE BEHAVIOR OF GOVERNMENT AND NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
Private Property and the Relative Cost of Tenure
Economics of Tenure
Competition, Monopoly and the Pursuit of Money
Review of The Economics of Discrimination
The Meaning of Collusion
Electrical Equipment Collusion: Why and How
Dollars or Scholars: The Economics of College Football
The Basis of Some Recent Advances in the Theory of Management of the Firm
Incentives in the United States
Market Prices, Property and Behavior
Customs, Behavior, and Property Rights
An Economist Looks at Secondary Education in California
Cost Effectiveness of Cost Effectiveness
An Economic Analysis of the Market for Scientists and Engineers
PART 4 LAW AND ECONOMICS
On Private Property and Freedom
Economic Laws and Political Legislation
Review of Public Law Perspectives on a Private Law Problem: Auto Compensation Plans
Corporate Management and Property Rights
Private Rights to Property: The Basis of Corporate Governance and Human Rights
On Corporations: A Visit with Smith
Constitutional Baselines by Virtual Contract: A General Theory and Its Application to Regulatory Takings
PART 5 THE ECONOMICS OF GIFTS
The Economics of Rational Assistance
The Economic and Social Impact of Free Tuition
What Price Zero Tuition?
The Pure Economics of Giving
Authors Cited
Subject Index
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