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The WSJ on Vertical Integration1 comment

Peter Klein wrote 1 day ago: | Peter Klein | It’s not as bad as this 2006 piece from Slate, but Monday’s WSJ front-pa … more →

Tags: Klein, Business history, Theory of the firm

Modest, Slow, Molecular, Definitive 1 comment

Peter Klein wrote 1 week ago: | Peter Klein | In an oft-cited passage from The Mechanisms of Governance (1996), Williamson describ … more →

Tags: Klein, Methodology/Theory of Science, New Institutional Economics

The Igon Value of Cognitive Dissonance6 comments

Dick Langlois wrote 2 weeks ago: | Dick Langlois | Some of you may have seen Steven Pinker’s review of Malcolm Gladwell’s … more →

Tags: - Langlois -, Methodology/Theory of Science, Recommended Reading

Keynesian Anti-Economics4 comments

Peter Klein wrote 2 weeks ago: | Peter Klein | A reader objected to my recent portrayal of Keynes as a crank, as a man who never re … more →

Tags: Klein, Austrian economics, People

The Amazing Krugman10 comments

Peter Klein wrote 3 weeks ago: | Peter Klein | The man indeed has a unique talent, as described here by the witty and clever Steve … more →

Tags: Klein, People

Fed Independence and Comparative Institutional Analysis3 comments

Peter Klein wrote 3 weeks ago: | Peter Klein | I’ve written before on Fed “independence” and why I don’t su … more →

Tags: Klein, Bailout, Financial Markets, Political Economy

No Required Ethics Course at Chicago-Booth1 comment

Peter Klein wrote 3 weeks ago: | Peter Klein | Bucking the trend, the Chicago-Booth MBA program will not offer required courses in … more →

Tags: Klein, Management Theory, Teaching

The Hodgson Petition9 comments

Peter Klein wrote 1 month ago: | Peter Klein | Several friends and colleagues urged me to sign Geoff Hodgson’s petition on th … more →

Tags: Klein, Bailout

QWERTY in the Long Run3 comments

Dick Langlois wrote 2 months ago: | Dick Langlois | The new issue of Industrial and Corporate Change has an article by Andreas Reinsta … more →

Tags: - Langlois -, Evolutionary Economics, Innovation, Institutions, Law and Economics

Famous Misquotes2 comments

Peter Klein wrote 2 months ago: | Peter Klein | What are your favorite famous misquotes in social science? E.g., everybody knows Lor … more →

Tags: Klein, Ephemera

Climate Change Economics17 comments

glennmmacdonald wrote 2 months ago: | Glenn MacDonald | Some thoughts about how carbon emissions will evolve. Assume carbon emissions ca … more →

Tags: Former Guest Bloggers, Political Economy

Two Quotations on Profits4 comments

Peter Klein wrote 2 months ago: | Peter Klein | Henry Hazlitt, from Economics in One Lesson: In a free economy, in which wages, cost … more →

Tags: Klein, Classical liberalism, Management Theory, Political Economy

Not Even the Slightest Soupçon of Correlation2 comments

Dick Langlois wrote 3 months ago: | Dick Langlois | Another interesting article from the Journal of Wine Economics: The lead article i … more →

Tags: - Langlois -, Ephemera, Food and agriculture

The Pretense of Bernanke's Knowledge3 comments

Peter Klein wrote 3 months ago: | Peter Klein | Chairman Bernanke, in his own words: July 2005: “[U]nquestionably, housing pri … more →

Tags: Klein, Austrian economics, Political Economy

What Does the Rule of Law Variable Measure?2 comments

Peter Klein wrote 3 months ago: | Peter Klein | Bill Easterly poses this question, referring to his NYU colleague Kevin Davis’ … more →

Tags: Klein, Business history, Institutions, New Institutional Economics

Greif's Response to Rowley2 comments

Peter Klein wrote 3 months ago: | Peter Klein | Avner Greif has written a response to Charles Rowley’s odd claim that Greif … more →

Tags: Klein, Methodology/Theory of Science, Business history

Heterogeneity and Health Care5 comments

Peter Klein wrote 3 months ago: | Peter Klein | Further to Russ’s post: One of the most frustrating aspects of the discussion … more →

Tags: Klein, Institutions, Political Economy

Federal Reserve "Independence"2 comments

Peter Klein wrote 4 months ago: | Peter Klein | I was invited to sign the Open Letter in support of Fed independence but, like Jerry … more →

Tags: Klein, Bailout, Financial Markets, Institutions, Management Theory

Department of They Just Don't Get It4 comments

Peter Klein wrote 4 months ago: | Peter Klein | Paul Ehrlich, author (with Anne Ehrlich) of The Population Bomb (1968), one of the b … more →

Tags: Klein, People


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