Uncertainty and the nature of the firm: From Frank Knight and Ronald Coase to an evolutionary approach
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Keywords
Uncertainty; Market–firm coevolution; Complexity; Innovations; Transaction costs; Institutions; Coasian uncertainty;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- B25 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary; Austrian; Stockholm School
- B52 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary; Modern Monetary Theory;
- D5 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium
- D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
- K1 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law
- L2 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior
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