"I begin by returning to the Coase (1973) argument that transaction costs are the basis for the existence of the firm. If information and enforcement were costless, it would be hard to envision a significant role for organisations. But they are not. What is the role of organization? The firm, a form "
"The divergence paths established by England and Spain in the New world have not converged despite the mediating factors of common ideological influences. In the former, an institutional framework has evolved that permits the complex impersonal exchange necessary to political stability and to capture"