Legal Precursors of Transaction Cost Economics

Smith, Gordon

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Legal Precursors of Transaction Cost Economics

D. Gordon Smith

Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School

September, 30 2009

THE ELGAR COMPANION TO TRANSACTION COST ECONOMICS, Peter Klein, ed., 2009

Abstract:
In this essay, I trace the legal precursors of transaction cost economics by focusing on three prominent faculty of the University of Wisconsin: John R. Commons, J. Willard Hurst, and Stewart Macaulay.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 16

Keywords: contracts, transaction cost economics

JEL Classification: B25, B31, D23, K12, L14

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Date posted: October 27, 2009

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Smith, D. Gordon, Legal Precursors of Transaction Cost Economics (September, 30 2009). THE ELGAR COMPANION TO TRANSACTION COST ECONOMICS, Peter Klein, ed., 2009. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1480519

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