Abstract
Book description: Oliver Williamson is one of the most important industrial economists of our time. He has made a major contribution to economic scholarship and remains at the forefront of research into transaction costs and the theory of the firm. \n \nIn this volume he has provided a very careful selection of what he considers to be the most important articles and papers in industrial organization. It contains 23 articles, dating from 1937 to 1987. Papers by Kenneth J. Arrow, Ronald H. Coase, Franco Modigliani, Michael Rothschild, Herbert A. Simon, George J. Stigler and Joseph Stiglitz are included in this collection.
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Barriers to entrySign (mathematics)EconomicsMicroeconomicsBusinessIndustrial organizationMonetary economicsMarket structure
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- Year
- 1987
- Type
- article
- Volume
- 77
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 388-401
- Citations
- 782
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Philippe Aghion,
Patrick Bolton
(1987).
Contracts as a barrier to entry.
American Economic Review
, 77
(3)
, 388-401.