• Secret to Writing Student Essays

    Updated: 2009-10-19 14:49:48
    | Peter Klein | Thanks to PB for this one. Posted in - Klein -, Teaching

  • Williamson’s “Economics of Institutions” Syllabus

    Updated: 2009-10-16 20:33:28
    | Peter Klein | I was pretty clueless when I started graduate school. I had good undergraduate training in economics, and had the privilege of attending my first Austrian seminar, where I met Murray Rothbard, Hans Hoppe, Roger Garrison, and David Gordon, before beginning graduate work. But I really didn’t know exactly what I [...]

  • Wodehouse

    Updated: 2009-10-15 22:42:36
    | Peter Klein | We interrupt Williamson Week to remind you that today, 15 October, is the birthday of the great P. G. Wodehouse. If I were really clever I’d write something like “Principal-Agent Conflicts between Wooster and Jeeves” or “Lord Emsworth as Charismatic Leader,” but the best I can do is share some favorite Wodehouse [...]

  • Williamson and the Austrians

    Updated: 2009-10-14 21:18:31
    | Peter Klein | My short piece on Williamsonian transaction cost economics and its relationship to the Austrian approach is up on Mises.org. Posted in - Klein -, Austrian Economics, New Institutional Economics, Theory of the Firm

  • Hoisted from the Comments: Hoopes on Williamson

    Updated: 2009-10-13 21:36:22
    | Peter Klein | Former guest blogger David Hoopes’s comment deserves its own post: So, we’re leaving the serious discussion to our goody two-shoes organizations twin? Was Will Mitchell a Williamson student? No one has said anything about Teece. Teece’s early JEBO articles did a great job talking about economies of scope and transaction cost influences on [...]

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