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The economics of transaction costs

by Oliver E. Williamson

ContractsCase studiesVertical integrationTransaction costsIndustrial CostsCosts, industrialEconomic aspects

Transaction cost economics began to take shape around 1970 and has since been established as an essential tool used to illuminate a range of problems in economics and other social sciences. This text presents articles which together form the foundations of research in transaction cost economics.

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