The Mechanisms of Governance

by Oliver E. Williamson

Book Overview

This book brings together in one place the work of one of our most respected economic theorists, on a field in which he has played a large part in originating: the New Institutional Economics. Transaction cost economics, which studies the governance of contractual relations, is the branch of the New Institutional Economics with which Oliver Williamson is especially associated.

Transaction cost economics takes issue with one of the fundamental...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195078241
• ISBN13: 9780195078244
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"