Austrian economics and the theory of the firm

The Elgar Companion to Transaction Cost Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 281-296

  Foss, Nicolai J ^a,b   Klein, Peter G ^c  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^b NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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