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Tables of Contents for Contingency, Complexity and the Theory of the Firm
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Figures and Tables
vii
 
List of Contributors
ix
 
Introduction
xi
 
Sheila C. Dow
Peter E. Earl
What Can an Economist Learn From Managing a Business?
1
13
G.B. Richardson
Information Costs, Protocols and the Boundaries of the Firm
14
26
Mark Casson
Nigel Wadeson
Incomplete Contracts and Economic Organization: Brian Loasby and the Theory of the Firm
40
27
Nicolai J. Foss
Loasby and Decisions: A Non-Coasian Perspective on the Nature of the Firm
67
25
Neil M. Kay
Three Stories about the Computer Industry and the Relevance of the Loasbian View of the Firm
92
21
Martin Fransman
The Changing Nature of Corporate Technological Diversification and the Importance of Organizational Capability
113
25
Felicia Fai
John Cantwell
Divisions of Labour in the Innovating Firm
138
18
Keith Pavitt
The Methodological Implications of Post Marshallian Economics
156
22
John H. Finch
The Bounds of Rationality: Reflections on the Economic Representation of Rationality in the Late Twentieth Century
178
21
Kenneth C. Cleaver
Bounded Rationality, `Foundamental' Uncertainty and the Firm in the Long Run
199
19
Stephen P. Dunn
The Growth of Knowledge and the Subjective Probability Approach
218
17
Maurizio Caserta
Disequilibrium States and Adjustment Processes: Towards a Historical-Time Analysis of Behaviour under Uncertainty
235
19
Giuseppe Fontana
Bill Gerrard
Equilibrium and Incommensurability
254
20
Christopher Torr
Economics, the State and the State of Economics
274
13
Richard H. Day
Choice, Complexity and Connections
287
19
Jason Potts
Concluding Reflections
306
7
Brian J. Loasby
Publications of Brian J. Loasby
313
6
Index of Names
319
5
Index of Subjects
324